dc.contributor.author | Pettigrew, NM | |
dc.contributor.author | Bagshawe, AF | |
dc.contributor.author | Cameron, HM | |
dc.contributor.author | Cameron, CH | |
dc.contributor.author | Dorman, JM | |
dc.contributor.author | MacSween, RNM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-01T08:53:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-01T08:53:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1976 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 70, Issues 5–6, 1976, Pages 462-465 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0035920376901309 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/91698 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fifty Kenyan patients with chronic liver disease or hepatocellular carcinoma were tested for hepatitis B surface antigenaemia by radioimmunoassay. The hepatitis B surface antigen was detected in 77% of the patients with chronic persistent or chronic aggressive hepatitis, or cirrhosis confirmed by liver biopsy, compared with 15% in a control group. All six patients with hepatocellular carcinoma had detectable hepatitis B surface antigen or antibody. 50% of the controls had hepatitis B surface antibody in their plasma detectable by haemagglutination. Auto-immune associated liver disease appeared infrequent. The possibility that the hepatitis B virus is an important cause of cirrhosis in Kenya is discussed. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | Hepatitis B surface antigenaemia in Kenyans with chronic liver disease | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en | en_US |