title: [Prevalence of serologic markers of hepatitis A, B, C, and D viruses in pregnant women].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and D virus infection among pregnant women attending a perinatal care hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective study was carried out to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus IgG antibodies (anti-HAV), hepatitis B virus markers (anti-HBcAg and HBsAg) and hepatitis C virus antibodies (anti-HCV) in pregnant women. In HBsAg positive cases. HBeAg and hepatitis D virus antibodies (anti-HDV) were investigated. All analyses were performed with the ELISA technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 1500 pregnant women studied. 93.3% were positive for anti-HAV IgG. The HBsAg seroprevalence was 0.26% and anti-HCV seroprevalence was 0.53%. There were no patients with HBeAg or anti-HDV.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A higher seroprevalence of HBsAg was found in this study than in other studies of pregnant Mexican women. We propose that HBsAg screening become a routine prenatal test.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Infectología e Inmunología, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología (INPer), México.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Ibarra
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Figueroa-Damián
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lara-Sánchez
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Arredondo-García
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ahued-Ahued
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D003699:Hepatitis D / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies
vernacular_title: Prevalencia de marcadores serológicos de los virus de la hepatitis A, B, C y D en embarazadas.