TT virus infection among Egyptian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) have been associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, a novel DNA virus was isolated from a patient with posttransfusion hepatitis of unknown etiology and designated TT virus (TTV). To examine whether this virus is associated with HCC, we investigated sera from 82 Egyptian patients with histopathologically-diagnosed HCC.

Factors predisposing to the occurrence of cryoglobulinemia in two cohorts of Egyptian and Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: ethnic and genotypic influence.

The association between cryoglobulinemia and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been reported. However, the factors underlying its wide variation of occurrence have not yet been well identified. To investigate this, cryoglobulinemia was studied in four cohorts of Egyptian and Japanese patients.

Clinical significance of T.T. virus infection in maintenance hemodialysis patients of an endemic area for hepatitis C infection.

Clinical significance of TTV infection was analyzed in Egyptian hemodialysis (HD) patients. Forty-seven Egyptian patients on maintenance HD and 50 age-matched volunteer blood donors were investigated. TT virus (TTV) DNA detection and genotyping were performed using a semi-nested polymerase chain reaction with specific primers.

Relationship between hepatitis C virus infection and schistosomal liver disease: not simply an additive effect.

Background: To study the association, clinical significance, and impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection in patients with schistosomal liver disease (SLD).

Methods: A total of 240 patients with chronic liver diseases encountered consecutively were enrolled in the study. Fifty volunteer blood donors were enrolled as controls.

The epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Egypt: summary findings in nine governorates.

Health questionnaires and parasitologic examinations of urine and stool were evaluated from a stratified random sample of 89,180 individuals from 17,172 households in 251 rural communities in 9 governorates of Egypt to investigate the prevalence of, risk factors for, and changing pattern of infection with Schistosoma sp. in Egypt. A subset, every fifth household, or 18,600 subjects, had physical and ultrasound examinations to investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for morbidity.

The epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Egypt: Ismailia governorate.

A multi-stage stratified sample of 12,515 individuals from 1,941 households in 42 villages in the Ismailia governorate of Egypt were surveyed for schistosomal infection. A subset of 2,390 subjects were surveyed for morbidity by physical and ultrasonographic examination. The prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection in rural Ismailia was 42.

Clinical significance of TT virus infection in patients with chronic liver disease and volunteer blood donors in Egypt.

Clinical significance of TT virus (TTV) infection was investigated in Egyptian patients with chronic liver disease and volunteer blood donors by a cross sectional analysis. TTV DNA in serum was assessed by a semi-nested polymerase chain reaction. The prevalence of TTV DNA did not differ among patients with chronic hepatitis B (11/24, 46%), chronic hepatitis C (22/72, 31%), or schistosomal liver disease (14/39, 36%).

High prevalence of hepatitis C virus among urban and rural population groups in Egypt.

Hepatitis C is a major health problem for Egypt. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus among different population groups living in urban and in two different rural areas (Suez Canal and North Sinai) of Egypt. Secondary objectives were to study the possible association between multiple blood transfusions, haemodialysis or Schistosomiasis and the seroprevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C.

A collaboration between two innovative medical education programmes in Egypt and the United States.

In 1984, the Center for Educational Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago began to offer its Master of Health Professions Education leadership programme to 13 medical teachers on-site at Suez Canal University in Ismailia, Egypt. The central issue in this project was whether two institutions on different continents and representing different cultures could collaboratively develop and implement a relevant graduate programme. Of equal concern was whether the degree programme could be adapted to meet the needs of the teachers of a new innovative medical school in a developing country.

Primary care medicine using a pathways model.

The Faculty of Medicine, University of Suez Canal, Ismailia, Egypt is the newest medical school in Egypt and a member of the network of community orientated medical schools, with an emphasis on primary care medicine. The faculty is engaged in innovative approaches to curriculum content and design and to teaching methods and sites. The model presented here is an attempt to teach primary care medicine in a logical manner.