Preliminary studies on hepatitis B surface antigen in the liver of patients with schistosomiasis

ABSTRACT

The detection of HBsAg in the liver tissue of 31 patients with active intestinal schistosomiasis with chronic liver disease was carried out by using the Orcein stain. The result of liver biopsy was as follows, the pure hepatic schistosomiasis was [29 percent] none of them was Orcein positive, the incidence CPH was [29 percent] and [44, 5 percent] were Orcein positive, the CAH was [25.5 percent] and [75 percent] were Orcein positive and the patients in mixed group were [16.1 percent] those who were Orcein positive constituted [40 percent]