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Australia antigen
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significance in necrotizing vasculitides
- In connective tissue disease: Necrotizing vasculitides
An antigen (Australia antigen) associated with viral hepatitis (liver inflammation) has been found in the serum of several persons with polyarteritis nodosa, raising the possibility that some cases of polyarteritis may result from the deposition in blood vessels of immune complexes of viral antigen and antibody.
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work of Alter
- In Harvey J. Alter
Blumberg discovered the so-called Australia antigen. The researchers observed the antigen in the blood from an Australian aborigine and detected it in about 11 percent of American leukemia patients and in only a very small percentage of healthy Americans. The protein was subsequently identified as a surface antigen of…
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