Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis D virus infection among injecting drug users with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection in Taiwan

J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Mar;49(3):1083-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01154-10. Epub 2010 Dec 29.

Abstract

An outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection occurred among injecting drug users (IDU) in Taiwan between 2003 and 2006, when an extremely high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was also detected. To determine whether clusters of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection occurred in this outbreak, 4 groups of subjects were studied: group 1, HIV-infected IDU (n = 904); group 2, HIV-infected non-IDU (n = 880); group 3, HIV-uninfected IDU (n = 211); and group 4, HIV-uninfected non-IDU (n = 1,928). The seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) was 19.8%, 18.4%, 17.1%, and 6.7%, and HDV seroprevalence among HBV carriers was 75.4%, 9.3%, 66.7%, and 2.3%, for groups 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Ninety-nine of 151 (65.6%) HDV-seropositive IDU had HDV viremia: 5 were infected with HDV genotype I, 41 with genotype II, 51 with genotype IV, and 2 with genotypes II and IV. In the phylogenetic analysis, only one cluster of 4 strains within the HDV genotype II was identified. Among patients with HCV viremia, a unique cluster within genotype 1a was observed; yet, patients within this cluster did not overlap with those observed in the HDV phylogenetic analysis. In summary, although IDU had a significantly higher HDV seroprevalence, molecular epidemiologic investigations did not support that HDV was introduced at the same time as HCV among IDU.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Comorbidity
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Drug Users*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • Hepatitis B / complications
  • Hepatitis C / complications
  • Hepatitis D / epidemiology*
  • Hepatitis D / virology*
  • Hepatitis Delta Virus / classification*
  • Hepatitis Delta Virus / genetics*
  • Hepatitis Delta Virus / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Seroepidemiologic Studies
  • Substance Abuse, Intravenous / complications*
  • Taiwan

Substances

  • RNA, Viral

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