Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Iran

Table 7 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among HIV-positive patients in Iran

Author	Year of study	City or province	Location	No. of participants	No. of positive samples	Prevalence	Test	Ref.
Babamahmoodi	2008-2010	Mazandaran	North	80	27	33.8%	ELISA	[173]
Ramezani	1999-2004	Tehran	North-Center	95	65	68.0%	ELISA	[167]
SeyedAlinaghi	2004- 2005	Tehran	North-Center	201	135	67.2%	ELISA	[170]
Ataei	1998-2007	Isfahan	Center	130	100	77.0%	ELISA and RIBA	[168]
Davarpanah	2006-2007	Shiraz	South	226	200	88.5%	ELISA	[166]
					196	86.7%	RIBA
					59	26.1%	RT-PCR
Khosravi		Fars	South	101	87	86.1%	ELISA	[172]
Alipour	2011	Shiraz	South	1444	1132	78.4%	ELISA	[169]
Davoodian	2002	Bandar Abbas and Roodan	South	38	35	94.0%	ELISA	[85]
Zahedi	2011	Kerman	South-East	165	122	73.9%	ELISA	[165]
Sharifi-Mood	2000-2005	Zahedan	South-East	52	6	11.5%	ND	[162]
Alavi	2001-2003	Ahvaz	South-West	104	77	74.04%	ELISA	[171]
Saleh	2013	Khorramabad, Lorestan	West	103	23	22.3%	ELISA	[174]
Mohammadi	2007-2008	Lorestan	West	391	282	72.0%	ELISA	[163]

ND: Not defined; ELISA: Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; RT-PCR: Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RIBA: Recombinant immunoblot assay.