Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA, Regino; LOPEZ SOTOLONGO, Eglis; LEY ARGILAGOS, Pedro  and  BAEZ MEDINA, René A. Characterization of a Ghanese population with positive surface antige. AMC [online]. 2002, vol.6, n.5, pp.501-508. ISSN 1025-0255.

A descriptive study was performed in patients with psoitive surface antigen (HbsAg) diagnosed in Mampong, Ghana hospital, during one years until August 1999; data were processed using MICROSTAT 46 years old, malaria and AIDS were the antecedents with 58 % and 23, 7 % respectively, among risk the most important was that of parenteral treatments (70 %) fever, tiredness lack of apetite, abdominal pain, choluria and jaundice were the main clinical manifestations, 35 % had a normal physical exam.

Keywords : ANTIGENS, SURFACE; EPIDEMIOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE.