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. 2014 Mar 20;2014:164357. doi: 10.1155/2014/164357

Table 2.

Prevalence of HCV antibodies in 2591 husband-wife pairs, stratified by female genital cutting (FGC) status of the woman (Egyptian DHS 2008).

	Wife's HCV antibody status (%)
	Negative	Positive	Total^b(%)
Wife has undergone FGC
Husband HCV negative	1721	155	1876 (76.3)
Husband HCV positive	442	141	583 (23.7)
Total^a (%)	2163 (88.0)	296 (12.0)	2459 (100)
Wife has not undergone FGC
Husband HCV negative	119	2	121 (91.7)
Husband HCV positive	9	2	11 (8.3)
Total^a (%)	128 (97.0)	4 (3.0)	132 (100)

^aRow percentages.

^bColumn percentages.