HEPATITIS‐ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN IN ABORIGINAL GROUPS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
The Medical Journal of AustraliaPublished 1 August 1972
Eugene J. Barrett
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Immunodiffusion tests detected hepatitis‐associated antigen in Australian Aboriginal adults and children and in Torres Strait Islander adults and adults, in a much higher proportion of the communities than has been found in Australian blood donors.
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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.
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