Hepatitis E virus: The cause of a waterbourne hepatitis outbreak
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Medical Virology
- Vol. 37 (1) , 58-60
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.1890370110
Abstract
Newly developed assays for antibody to hepatitis E virus (HEV) were used to study 114 serum samples collected during an outbreak of enterically transmitted hepatitis that occurred in Kashmir in 1978/9. The sera included samples from patients with viral hepatitis, anicteric hepatitis, contacts of cases, and unaffected persons. A total of 71% of patients with viral hepatitis were found positive for anti-HEV specific IgG, and 75% of these were also positive for IgM. These data confirm the hepatitis E virus as the causative agent in this outbreak.Keywords
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