Prevalence and trends of markers of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human Immunodeficiency virus in Argentine blood donors

Table 2 Comparison of prevalence rates between 2004 and 2011 in the different regions for each serological marker

	HBsAg			Anti-HBc			Anti-HCV			Anti-HIV
Region	2004	2011	p	2004	2011	p	2004	2011	p	2004	2011	p
NW	0.660	0.451	0.001	4.623	5.221	0.004	0.618	0.660	0.572	0.112	0.131	0.578
NE	0.371	0.291	0.054	2.809	3.163	0.004	0.509	0.335	<0.001	0.091	0.124	0.164
South	0.254	0.223	0.560	1.895	1.570	0.025	0.513	0.446	0.351	0.075	0.247	<0.001
West	0.419	0.280	0.009	1.728	1.702	0.823	0.659	0.434	<0.001	0.080	0.131	0.068
Center	0.416	0.151	<0.001	2.110	1.466	<0.001	0.753	0.436	<0.001	0.247	0.200	<0.001
CABA public	0.282	0.181	<0.001	2.946	2.077	<0.001	0.945	0.641	<0.001	0.292	0.308	0.617
CABA private	0.090	0.090	1.000	1.945	1.085	<0.001	0.507	0.287	<0.001	0.150	0.104	0.070
TOTAL	0.336	0.198	<0.001	2.391	2.007	<0.001	0.721	0.460	<0.001	0.208	0.190	0.066

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