Prevalence of blood-borne viruses and hepatitis B vaccination status among haemodialysis patients in Central Australia.

Objective: A cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of blood-borne viruses and hepatitis B vaccination status in haemodialysis patients in Central Australia.

Methods: Our study comprised 366 Aboriginal and 1 non-Indigenous Australian in Central Australia who had commenced haemodialysis between January 1996 and December 2019.

Results: Chronic hepatitis B infection was seen in 8.

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in children with recurrent abdominal pain.

The present study was performed to study the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). Children above 3 years of age of both sexes attending the OPD of a teaching hospital, with complaints of at least three discrete episodes of abdominal pain of sufficient severity to interrupt normal daily activities, occurring over a period of one month or more and with out identifiable cause of pain were enrolled in the study.