Ramirez A M, Lee S P, Woodfield D G
Auckland Regional Blood Centre.
N Z Med J. 1987 Apr 22;100(822):235-7.
In a study of 565 hepatitis B antigen (HBsAg) positive persons from the Auckland region, antibody to the hepatitis delta virus was detected in 38. The largest number were in Samoans (61%) although the infection was present in some other Pacific Islanders. Among HBsAg positive healthy blood donors, antenatal patients and acute hepatitis patients between 3.8 and 4.8% were anti-delta positive; while 28% of chronic hepatitis patients were positive suggesting an association between this disease and delta infection. Some positive results were also found in sera from intravenous drug addicts. By contrast, anti-delta was uncommon in New Zealand born Maoris or Europeans. Delta infection can be detected in some Pacific Islanders, some European immigrants as well as intravenous drug addicts and has the potential to spread in an epidemic form to HBsAg carriers in the general community. Widespread vaccination against hepatitis B is recommended to eventually reduce the number of HBsAg carriers in New Zealand.
在一项对奥克兰地区565名乙肝抗原（HBsAg）阳性者的研究中，检测到38人有丁型肝炎病毒抗体。人数最多的是萨摩亚人（61%），不过其他一些太平洋岛民中也存在这种感染。在HBsAg阳性的健康献血者、产前患者和急性肝炎患者中，3.8%至4.8%的人抗丁型肝炎病毒呈阳性；而28%的慢性肝炎患者呈阳性，这表明这种疾病与丁型肝炎感染之间存在关联。在静脉注射吸毒者的血清中也发现了一些阳性结果。相比之下，在新西兰出生的毛利人或欧洲人中，抗丁型肝炎病毒并不常见。在一些太平洋岛民、一些欧洲移民以及静脉注射吸毒者中可检测到丁型肝炎感染，并且有可能以流行形式传播给普通社区中的HBsAg携带者。建议广泛接种乙肝疫苗，以最终减少新西兰HBsAg携带者的数量。
