Hepatitis in Prisoner Blood Donors
- 20 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 286 (3) , 159
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197201202860315
Abstract
To the Editor: The disproportionately higher incidence of hepatitis-associated antigen (HAA, Australia antigen) among blood donors in penal institutions, as compared to the donor population at large, has recently been commented upon in two communications1 , 2 and two articles3 , 4 in the Journal. I should like to present the following additional and corroborative data, obtained at a federal penitentiary in Georgia.Serum transaminase levels and prevalence of HAA were determined among two groups of prisoners (each constituting approximately 7.5 per cent of the inmate population). The first group was composed of 168 prisoners, all of whom served as blood donors during . . .Keywords
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