Serological Markers of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Healthy Volunteer Blood Donors in Campania (Southern Italy)
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Vox Sanguinis
- Vol. 41 (3), 146-150
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1981.tb01028.x
Abstract
The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) serological markers was determined in a prospective fashion by radioimmunoassay in 2084 healthy volunteer blood donors. In the 51.2% of the donors who were positive for at least 1 marker, the percentage of occurrence of each marker was: HBsAg [hepatitis B surface antigen] 5.3, anti-HBs [antibody to HBsAg] alone 1.7, anti-HBc [antibody to hepatitis B core antigen] alone 10.8, anti-HBs and anti-HBc 333.3. Because of the size of the problem this investigation strongly demands further studies on the potential role of blood positive for anti-HBc in transmitting HBV infection in this geographical area.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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