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HEPATITIS‐ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN IN ABORIGINAL GROUPS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
Author(s) -
Barrett E. J.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47423.x
Subject(s) - hepatitis b antigens , immunodiffusion , antigen , northern territory , medicine , hepatitis , immunology , hepatitis b , virology , demography , geography , hepatitis b virus , virus , sociology , archaeology
Immunodiffusion tests detected hepatitis‐associated antigen in Australian Aboriginal adults (13 of 160) and children (25 of 731), and in Torres Strait Islander adults (11 of 79), in a much higher proportion of the communities than has been found in Australian blood donors.