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Viral Hepatitis and the Drug Cult: A Brief Socioepidemiological Study in Sydney
Author(s) -
Boughton C. R.,
Hawkes R. A.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1980.tb03704.x
Subject(s) - medicine , virology , hepatitis , serology , viral hepatitis , antibody , hepatitis b virus , hepatitis b , hepatitis a , immunology , hbsag , epidemiology , virus
Summary: Viral hepatitis and the drug cult: A brief socio‐epidemiological study in Sydney. C. R. Boughton and R. A. Hawkes, Aust. N.Z. J . Med., 1980, 10, pp. 157–161. Study of 141 individuals attending a Sydney drug referral centre revealed considerable psychosocial maladjustment in the group. Seventy‐five per cent showed serological evidence of hepatitis B virus infection, past or present, as compared with 73% of control subjects. Antibody to hepatitis B core antigen was found to be twice as frequent as a serological marker of HBV infection, as antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen Prevalence rates of antibody to hepatitis A virus were similar in the drug and control groups Hepatitis possibly due to hepatitis non A non B virus infection, was found in 74% of those with clinical and biochemical hepatitis at the time of the study