Table IV.
Centre | Year | Symptoms | Screening | No. Tested |
Positive |
Predominant strain | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | n | % | |||||
Delhi54 | 1993 | Asymptomatic | ELISA PAGE |
169 | 38 | 33 | G9P[11] |
Bangalore55 | 1988 - 1997 | Asymptomatic | ELISA | 882 | 321 | 39 | G10P[11] |
Vellore10 | 1999 - 2000 | Symptomatic/ asymptomatic |
ELISA | NK | 43 | NK | G10P[11] |
NK, not known; PAGE, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; ELISA, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay