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© 1980 Oxford University Press

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Hepatitis B in the Rural Tropics

DAVID E JOHNSON*, RAPIN SNITBHAN**, ROBERT M SCOTT{dagger}, ELIOT J PEARLMAN{ddagger} and ROBERT S KENNEDY*

* Department of Epidemiology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science APO San Francisco 96346, USA
** Department of Virology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences
{dagger} Department of Virology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences
{ddagger} Department of Epidemiology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences.

Current address: Department of Virology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research, Washington, DC 20012

Johnson D E [Department of Epidemiology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, APO San Francisco 96346, USA] Snitbhan R, Scott R M, Pearlman E J and Kennedy R S. Hepatitis B in the rural tropics. International Journal of Epidemiology 1980, 9: 123–129.

The prevalence of HBsAg in a cross-sectional serosurvey of a rural Thai village was nearly 8%. The corresponding antibody prevalence was approximately 35%. The prevalence of antigenaemia was significantly higher for adult males than for adult females. Possible dynamics of hepatitis B virus transmission in this rural village are explored, but tend to rely on a differential handling of antigenaemia by males and females. A considerable proportion of the hepatitis B virus exposure appears to be associated with malaria prophylaxis programmes.

Received 3 December 1979


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