Serological prevalence and risk factor analysis of hepatitis G virus infection in Hubei Province of China

Table 1 Positive rates of anti-HGV and HGV RNA in drug users and prostitutes

	n	Anti-HGV	HGV RNA
Drug users*
po	211	6.63 (14)	27.96 (49)
iv	164	12.20 (20)	32.92 (54)
Prostitutes
Non-addict	22	9.09 (2)	13.36 (3)
Addict	76	14.43 (36)	22.36 (17)
Healthy group	55	1.82 (1)	0 (0)

*Seventy-six prostitutes who were addicted to drugs were added to this group.

Table 2 Risk factors of HGV infections in drug users

	Sex		Addiction duration		HBV infection
	Male	Female	< 2 years	≥ 2 years	HBsAg (+)	HBsAg (-)
Anti-HGV	8.65	9.23	6.48	12.58	13.33	9.37
HGV RNA	3.46	32.84	9.72	52.56	16.67	22.78

Table 3 HGV infections in the cases of PHC, hemodialysis, liver or kidney tran splantation

	n	Anti-HGV	HGV RNA in anti-HGV (+) cases
Hemodialysis	61	13.11 (8/61)	37.50 (3/8)
PHC	41	4.80 (2/41)	100.00 (2/2)
Liver transplantation	3	33.30 (1/3)	100.00 (1/1)
Kidney transplantation	53	1.82 (1/53)	0
Total	158	7.5 (12/158)	50.00 (6/12)

Table 4 Positive rates of anti-HGV and HGV RNA in patients with viral hepatitis

	n	Anti-HGV	HGV RNA in anti-HGV (+) cases
Hepatitis A	35	14.29 (5/35)	20.00 (1/5)
Hepatitis B	214	17.29 (37/214)	35.14 (13/37)
Hepatitis C	62	14.52 (9/62)	55.56 (5/9)
Hepatitis E	25	4.00 (1/25)	0
Hepatitis NA-E	15	26.67 (4/15)	50.00 (2/4)
Total	351	15.05 (56/351)	37.50 (21/56)