Incidence of hepatitis B antigen among Jordanian volunteer blood donors
| Autor: | Musleh Tarawneh, Mohammad El-khateeb, Sa'ad Hijazi, M. Shahrouri, Abdalla Awidi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Low income medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Blood Donors Antigen Hygiene Internal medicine Healthy volunteers Humans Medicine Volunteer media_common Hepatitis B Surface Antigens Jordan business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Hepatitis B medicine.disease Socioeconomic Factors Carrier State Immunology Female business Blood bank |
| Zdroj: | Public Health. 98:92-96 |
| ISSN: | 0033-3506 |
| Popis: | Blood samples of 2500 healthy volunteer donors attending the Jordan UniversityHospital Blood Bank were screened for HB S Ag by the R.I.A. and R.P.H.A. methods and revealed the presence of 111 HBP S Ag positive samples (4·4%). A higher positive rate was present among elderly donors from crowded poor areas with low income, education and hygiene. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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