Alarming prevalence of hepatitis-B infection among the Jarawas - A primitive Negrito tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 232-233

  Murhekar, M V ^a   Murhekar, K M ^a   Sehgal, S C ^a  

^a Regional Medical Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman; Hepatitis B; India; Jarawas; Negrito; Nicobar; Tribes

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0037903647     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2893.2003.00419.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Blumberg BS, Alter HJ, Visnich S. A new antigen in leukemia sera. JAMA 1965; 191: 541-546.
2. Lin HH, Li YH, Yu JH et al. Ethnic and geographic variations in the prevalence of hepatitis A, B and C among aboriginal villages in Hualien. Taiwan. Infection 2000; 28: 205-208.
3. Hart G. Factors associated with hepatitis B infection. Int J STD AIDS 1993; 4: 102-106.
4. Coimbra CE Jr, Santos RV, Yoshida CF, Baptista ML, Flowers NM, do Valle AC. Hepatitis B epidemiology and cultural practices in Amerindian populations of Amazonia: the Tupi-Monde and the Xavante from Brazil. Soc Sci Med 1996; 42: 1735-1743.
5. Prasad SR, Rodrigues FM, Dhorje SP, Ramamoorthy CL. Prevalence & subtypes of hepatitis B surface antigen in the tribal population of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Ind J Med Res 1983; 78: 300-306.
6. Reddy PH, Tedder RS. Hepatitis virus markers in the Baiga tribal population of Madhya Pradesh, India. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hygiene 1995; 89: 620.
7. Murhekar MV, Murhekar KM, Das D, Arankalle VA, Sehgal, SC. Prevalence of hepatitis B infection among the primitive tribes of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Ind J Med Res 2000; 111: 199-203.
8. Kumar S. Jarawas threatened by measles outbreak. Lancet 1999, 354.
9. Murhekar MV, Murhekar KM, Arankalle VA, Sehgal SC. Epidemiology of hepatitis B infection among the Nicobarese -a mongoloid tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Epid Inf 2002; 128(3): 465-471.