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R W Payne

Publications and source records attributed to R W Payne.

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PubMed1974

Hepatitis B antigen (HBAg) and its antibody (HBAb) in hospital patients.

Sera from 5171 inpatients have been tested for HBAg and HBAb during the 18-month period ending in December 1972. The incidence of HBAg (0.116%) was similar to that in blood donors (0.119%) in the same area, being tested for the first time by the same technique. By contrast the incidence of HBAb in patients (0.271%) was significantly higher than in donors (0.103%). A possible mode of infection was identified in three of six HBAg-positive patients and in seven of 12 HBAb patients. None of the positive patients was regarded as ;high risk' when admitted to hospital. The study thus emphasizes the need to regard all specimens as potentially infective.

Adult↗
PubMed1971

Nasal acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus in partly divided wards.

The spread of coagulase-positive staphylococci has been studied in a modern hospital in which most of the patients were nursed in 4-bed rooms separated from a common corridor only by low dividing walls. Acquisition of new nasal strains from patients in other bedrooms was nearly as easy as from patients in the neighbouring beds. There was no indication that subdivision of this type hindered the spread of nasal strains as compared with open wards of the ;Nightingale' pattern.

Air Microbiology↗