Table 1.

Anti-HCV antibody screening in blood donors at various locations and times in Egypt

Year*	Sample size	Study type	Prevalence (%)	Incidence per 1,000	Location	HCV assay	First author (reference)
1992	13,483	Blood donors	10.8	3.7	Cairo	Second generation	Kamel (20)
1992	90	Blood donors	14.4	—†	Cairo	Second generation	Darwish (50)
1992	1,837	Blood donors	14.5	—	Suez Canal	Second generation	el Gohary (51)
1993	163	Blood donors	13.6	—	Cairo	Second generation	Darwish (52)
1993	2,644	Blood donors	24.8	—	National	Second generation	Arthur (53)
1995	188	Blood donors	26.6	—	Cairo	Second generation	Bassily (54)
1999	3,608	Blood donors	8.8	—	National	Second generation	Tanaka (55)
2009	55,922	Blood donors	7.4–17.7	—	Nile Delta	Third generation	Ismail (37)

*Year of investigation, not year of publication.

^†Age-specific data could not be abstracted.