From: Prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus infection in Egypt: a systematic review with meta-analysis
last name of the first author (publication year) | Region | Population | Number of participants tested for HBV DNA | OBI cases (serum) | HBV genotype analysis(n) | Genotype | ||||||
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A | B | C | D | E | F | Mixed | ||||||
Esmail (2016) [20] | Minia | Patients on hemodialysis | 50 | 12 | 12 | – | 6 | 4 | 2 | – | – | – |
Hassan (2011) [43] | Cairo | Patients with HCC | 40 | 9 | 25a | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | Â | Â | 5 |
Taha (2013) [40] | Cairo | Patients with HCC | 20 | 7 | 23a | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | Â | Â | 4 |
El-Maksoud (2019) [44] | Mansoura | Patients with HCC and LC | 100 | 30 | 30 | – | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
Raouf (2014) [46] | Cairo | Cancer children who were HCV positive | 50 | 16 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Kishk (2015) [54] | – | Blood donors | 44 | 10 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Elmaghloub (2017) [64] | Tanta | HCWs | 132 | 7 | 7 | – | – | – | 2 | 3 |  | 2 |
Kishk (2014) [57] | Ismailia | Patients with HCV | 40 | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Elkady (2017) [63] | Sohag | Patients with hematological malignancies | 54 | 23 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Zaki (2015) [21] | Mansoura | Patients on hemodialysis | 96 | 96 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 8 | – | – |  | 1 |
 | Total | 150 | 8 | 25 | 20 | 68 | 5 | 6 | 15 |