0973-7510 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2581-690X DR. M.N. Khan 10.22207/JPAM.16.1.40 Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Co-infections among Antenatal Women in a Tertiary care Hospital, Uttar Pradesh, India Yadav Kiran Verma Preeti Mishra Prakash Kumar Yadav Suresh Kumar Tripathi Sanjeev Kumar Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College, Kannauj – 209 732, Uttar Pradesh, India. Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Kannauj – 209 732, Uttar Pradesh, India. Deptartment of Microbiology, Jan Nayak Karpuri Thakur Medical College, Madhephura – 852128, Bihar, India. Department of Pediatrics, Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Atariya, Sitapur – 261 303, Uttar Pradesh, India. 21 02 2022 16 1 435 440 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sexually transmitted infections (STI) associated with pregnancy poses a great threat to fetal well being due to vertical transmission. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, HIV and syphilis infection in pregnant women. This retrospective study was conducted in Microbiology department over a period of one year from December 2018 to December 2019 at a tertiary care teaching hospital, Uttar Pradesh, India. In this study, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibodies against hepatitis C virus, HIV and syphilis infection were detected in antenatal women. Total 4037 pregnant women attending antenatal clinic were enrolled in this study. The seroprevalence of HBV was 1.34% (54/4037), HCV was 0.52% (21/4037), syphilis was 0.07% (3/4037), and HIV was 0.12% (5/4037). Only one patient had coinfection of HBV and HCV. Regular antenatal screening of all pregnant females for various infections should be done for proper and timely intervention.

Keywords Antenatal clinic Pregnancy Sexually transmitted infections Treponema Pallidum