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[Prevalence of Delta hepatitis in health workers in Dakar (Senegal)]
A I Sow1, M F Cisse, M Soumare
1Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dakar, Sénégal.
Medecine Tropicale : Revue Du Corps De Sante Colonial
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
708 hospital workers in University Teaching Hospital of Dakar were tested to HBs antigen; among them 128 were positive and tested to Delta antibody, by ELISA Abbott kit. Seven (7) men and one woman were positive. However, the positivity of Delta antibody is neither linked to sex, nor to age of subjects. 87% of the Delta antibody carriers were found among the trainees, and 50% of them studied in the Odonto-Stomatology Institute.