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Comparative Study
. 1976 Feb;17(2):119-21.
doi: 10.1136/gut.17.2.119.

Hepatitis-B surface antigen and cirrhosis in Iraq

E H Boxall, T H Flewett, A Paton, S W Rassam
Comparative Study

Hepatitis-B surface antigen and cirrhosis in Iraq

E H Boxall et al. Gut. 1976 Feb.

Abstract

Hepatitis-B surface antigen was found in 58% of 64 patients with cirrhosis in Iraq using counter immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), radioimmunoassay (RIA), and three commercial haemagglutination tests--Auscell (Abbott Laboratories), Hepatest (Wellcome Reagents Ltd.), and Hepanosticon (Organon Teknika). CIE detected about half as many positives as the other methods; RIA was the most sensitive. The number of positive reactions was much higher than in any previously reported series of patients with cirrhosis and seven times higher than in a normal hospital control population.

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