Table 1.

Prevalence of serum anti-hepatitis C virus and hepatitis C virus RNA in in studies examining ≥ 3000 pregnant mothers

Ref.	No. screened	Anti-HCV+	HCV RNA+
Hillemanns et al[3]	3712	0.94%	57%
Conte et al[4]	15250	2.40%	72%
Ward et al[5]	4729	0.80%	72%
Baldo et al[6]	4008	1.70%	42.50%
Goldberg et al[7]	3548	0.60%	NA
Kumar et al[8]	8130	1.03%	NA
Sami et al[9]	5902	1.80%	NA
Ohto et al[10]	22664	0.50%	54%
Seisdedos et al[11]	474539	0.15%	NA
Ugbebor et al[12]	5760	3.60%	NA
Pinto et al[13]	115386	0.10%	NA
Urbanus et al[14]	4563	0.30%	NA
Mean		1.16%	59.75%

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; NA: Not available.