Hepatitis B Transmitted by a Human Bite
- 4 November 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 230 (5) , 723-724
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1974.03240050051028
Abstract
HEPATITIS B, formerly termed serum hepatitis, is transmitted by inoculation of blood or blood products containing hepatitis B antigen (HB Ag). Recent experimental and epidemiologic evidence suggests that disease can be transmitted by person-to-person contact (sexual, blood-oral) and by the fecal-oral route.1,2 In some cases of HB Ag-positive hepatitis, a history of inoculation or transfusion of blood or blood products is lacking, and evidence for other routes of infection has been sought. Hepatitis B antigen has been demonstrated by various methods in the urine, feces,3 saliva,4 and semen5 with and without evidence of trace amounts of blood. Report of a Case On Oct 18, 1972, a 52-year-old woman reported to a clinic complaining of nausea, weakness, loss of appetite for one week, dark urine, and jaundice. Liver function studies confirmed the diagnosis of hepatitis. She had not eaten raw shellfish, had never had a blood transfusion,Keywords
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