Abstract: Objective To investigate the relationship between hepatitis B/C co-infected with epstein-barr virus
(EBV) and liver cirrhosis. Methods Total of 424 patients with hepatitis B and C from January 2014 to June
2014 in the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University were studied, among whom 306 patients
were infected with HBV, 130 out of the 306 patients were co-infected with EBV, and 141 of them were with
liver cirrhosis. Total of 118 patients were infected with hepatitis C virus, 66 patients were co-infected with
EBV, and 41 of them were liver cirrhosis. The Chi-square test was used to determine the relationship between
EBV and hepatitis B/C. Alcohol intake, medical duration, gender, age and viral load adjusted with Logistic
regression method was used to analyze the correlation of EB virus and liver cirrhosis. Mann-Whitney test was
applied to analyze variations of ALT, AST, ALT/AST, TBA, TBil and DBil in different groups. Results Chi-
square test result indicated that there was a significant relationship between liver cirrhosis patients co-infected
with EB virus and hepatitis C virus (P = 0.018). However, no significant difference was observed between EB
virus and liver cirrhosis (P = 0.342), but there was still a correlation after adjusted with Logistic regression
(P = 0.05) for hepatitis C patients co-infected with EB virus. Mann-Whitney test showed large diversities of
ALT, AST, ALT/AST, TBA, TBil, DBil results between liver cirrhosis and hepatitis B/C groups. Conclusion
There was a relationship between hepatitis C patients co-infected with EBV virus and liver cirrhosis, but EB
virus dose not influence ALT, AST, ALT/AST, TBA, TBil, DBil in hepatitis B/C patients.
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