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Evaluation of HCV RNA in human saliva in HCV-infected patients and its correlation to treatment outcome in Egypt.

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Surveillance and monitoring of diseases

Abstract

Background: A challenging healthcare concern is the infection caused by the Hepatitis C virus. The Egyptian Ministry of Health adopted many assertive preventive measures to significantly decrease the spread of the disease. These measures focused on all methods of HCV transmission. Human saliva may contain HCV ribonucleic acid (RNA), according to recent research emphasizing the need for further study. Aim: to assess the presence of HCV RNA in human saliva and how it relates to serum HCV RNA along with treatment outcomes using direct-acting antivirals. Methods: Chronic HCV patients who showed positive HCV viremia and were eligible to be treated according to the Egyptian HCV guidelines enrolled in the study. Assessment of both serum and salivary HCV RNA have been done pre- and post-treatment. Results: Enrollment was done for 50 patients. The mean age was 52.56±12.93 years and the majority (54%) were males. Most of the patients were not cirrhotic either by Fibrosis-4 score (Fib-4) (2.69±1.98) or by ultrasound (Only 18% are cirrhotic). Serum HCV RNA was positive in all cases (100%); however, there are only three positive salivary RNA (6%). Seventy-two percent of patients fall in the easy-to-treat category according to Egyptian protocol for HCV treatment. All patients achieved a sustained virological response (100%) with no positive RNA results in both serum and saliva. Conclusion: HCV could be present in human saliva, but its prevalence is low. Saliva has low risk of HCV transmission and it is not recommended to use salivary RNA to diagnose or follow up HCV.

DOI

10.21608/ejcm.2024.270156.1284

Keywords

Diagnosis, Hepatitis C virus, Human saliva, mode of transmission, PCR

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

AbdAllah

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Affiliation

Complementary Medicine Department, Medical Research Institute, National Research Centre

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dr.mohamedabda@gmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0003-4358-6219

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Medical Research Institute, National Research Centre

Email

dr.eman.attia@hotmail.com

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Raslan

MiddleName

Ismail

Affiliation

Family Medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Cairo university, Cairo, Egypt

Email

emanraslan@kasralainy.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-2484-5281

First Name

Tamer Elbaz

Last Name

Elbaz

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-

Affiliation

Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

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tamerbaz@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Elesnawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hepatitis Management and Hepatic Oncology unit, Infectious and Hepatology Department, Ahmad Maher Teaching Hospital - GOTHI, Cairo. Egypt.

Email

dr.yasserelesnawy@gmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-9863-5551

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Awad

MiddleName

A M.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Medical Research Institute, National Research Centre

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dr.monaabdelkader@hotmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Said

Last Name

Shalaby

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I

Affiliation

Complementary Medicine Department, Medical Research Institute, National Research Centre

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saidshalaby7@gmail.com

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-

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-

Volume

42

Article Issue

4

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51111

Issue Date

2024-10-01

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2024-02-14

Publish Date

2024-10-01

Page Start

218

Page End

222

Print ISSN

1110-1865

Online ISSN

2090-2611

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https://ejcm.journals.ekb.eg/article_354541.html

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234

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The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine

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https://ejcm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Evaluation of HCV RNA in human saliva in HCV-infected patients and its correlation to treatment outcome in Egypt.

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23 Dec 2024