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PEREIRA BORDELOIS, Natacha  y  GONZALEZ FLORES, Annia. Surface Antigen: Behavior of its positivity in a Health Area. AMC [online]. 2001, vol.5, n.2. ISSN 1025-0255.

A descriptive cross-sectional study of the 50 patients with antigen of positive Surface, belongin to "Carlos Juan Finlay" Teaching Communitary Hospital of Camagüey City during the period from January, 1997 to January 1999 was performed. The study universe was composed of the oll patients with antigen of positive surface which were selected from the Book of Compulsory Declaration of transmissible Diseases in the health Area and the from individual Clinical Records. All subjects od the study completed a medical survey according to the reviewed literature and which constituted the primary Register of the Research. Data obtained are presented in statistical charts and processed throug the statistic package Microstat in a IBM compatible computer.porcentage was used as a comparison measure. It was found that masculine sex and the group of 20-29 years was the most representative of the study sample. Promiscuity with 64% was the most significant factor of risk, together with the sexual transmission via with 78%. Acute hepatitis was the clinical entity with more patients for the sample an the asthenia was the symptom with more frequent claims.

Palabras clave : ANTIGENS, SUFARCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE.

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