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R Borota

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PubMed1981

Hepatitis A virus infections in Voyvodina.

Sera of 1000 persons in Voyvodina were tested with radioimmunoassay for antibodies against hepatitis A virus (HAV). The morbidity and age incidence of positive findings have been analysed and compared with relevant findings in other countries. Below the age of 19 years the morbidity rates are higher (0.138 to 0.595 per mill) and the prevalences of seropositives are lower (17.1-64.0%) than the respective frequencies above that age (0.011 to 0.052 per mill and 85.7-98.7% respectively). Below the first year of life seropositivity is more frequent than in 1- to 14-year old children. After the first year until the age of 30-39 years the frequency of seropositives increases with increasing age up to a maximum of about 90%.

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PubMed1978

Evaluation of assay methods for hepatitis B surface (HBsAg) antigen and its antibody (anti-HBs) in viral hepatitis B (VHB)-HBsAg-positive.

The sensitivity of methods for the detection of HBsAg and its anti-HBs was compared in serial 1200 sera samples from 30 patients with VHB-HBsAg-positive. HBsAg was tested by gel-diffusion (GD), counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), reversed haemogglutination (rHA), redioimmunoassay (RIA), and enzyme immunoassay (EIA). RIA and EIA methods are statistically significantly more sensitive compared with the other methods (P less than 0.0005). By these methods the minimal concentrations of HBsAg in sera can be proved. Although there is no statistically significant difference in the sensitivity between RIA and EIA, the latter is more sensitive if the subtype ay-HBsAg is considered (12 sera samples). In 24 patients the subtype was ay, in two ad, and in four it could not be differentiated. In 70% of patients anti-HBs was proved by RIA and in 10% by CIE, i.e., in 73% and 9% of sera samples, respectively. In 117 sera samples of these patients the sensitivity of RIA and EIA was compared for determination of anti-HBs. No statistically significant difference between the methods for determination of anti-HBs was found (50.42%: 40.17%). No immune response to HBsAg has been observed in 9 cases, but 6 of them have remained permanent carriers of this antigen.

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