%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia del ant¨ªgeno de superficie de la hepatitis B, en el ¨¢rea de salud "Ra¨²l S¨¢nchez"
%A Torres Fern¨¢ndez
%A Mayra
%A Lang Ballona
%A Francisco
%A Toledo Curbelo3 <A NAME="autor"></A>
%A Gabriel
%J Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiolog£¿-a
%D 2001
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X a study was conducted to know the prevalence of the hepatitis b surface antigen in a randomly selected sample from "ra¨²l s¨¢nchez" health area, in 1995. a seroepidemilogic survey was done and the immunoenzimatic method (elisa) was used. a prevalence of the studied marker equal to 4.2 % was detected. the highest prevalence was found in the age group 15-29. as regards the factors considered as risk factors, there were statistically significant differences that show a higher percentage of positivity among those living together with suspected cases or with the sick. the index of subclinical infecton was 76.4 %.
%K hepatitis b surface antigens
%K health surveys
%K enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
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