| markedly high seroprevalence of hepatitis b virus infection in comparison to hepatitis c virus and human t lymphotropic virus type-1 infections in selected solomon islands populations. | to determine the prevalences of hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv), and human t lymphotropic virus type-1 (htlv-1) infections in residents of the solomon islands, we surveyed 1,610 serum samples from 1,113 outpatients and 497 healthy volunteer blood donors at the central hospital in honiara, the solomon islands. the prevalence of hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) by radioimmunoassay (ria) (n = 315, 19.6%) was significantly different from that of antibody to hcv (anti-hcv) by a se ... | 1999 | 10432062 |