Investigation of Hepatitis B virus, a species of Hepadnaviridae in Misan province

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is recognised as a serious and public health concern globally. The virus infects human in different ages and sex, and many countries and states have reported HBV infection.  In Iraq, the researches revealed that the HBV is existed in all governorates as well as health-authorized establishments declared that many pateints infected with HBV. In this research, recent serological method that is Enzyme Linked immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) was facilitated for investigation of HBV infection in Misan governorate. Up to 149 blood specimens were taken from the patients in order to HBV diagnosis using HBSAG ELISA TEST KIT. The specimens were red by ELISA apparatus (BIoTek) and statically analysed by SPSS software in order to evaluate the incidence of HVB.  The results showed that there are positive cases in both males and females
with different ages. There are 17 (68.0%) samples were positive in males and 8 (32.0%) positive samples in females, the total samples were 149 samples. Further statistical analysis was used to calculate the incidence rate of HBV, which confirmed the infection rates were statistically significant. Therefore, the data of this present research support the previous finding, which confirmed the existence of the HBV in patients in Misan governorate and the infection rate were low similar with other cities.