Aetiology Of Acute sporadic Hepatitis InAdults In Kenya
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Date
1984Author
Greenfield, C
Karayiannis, P
Wankya, B M
Shah, MV
Tukei, P
Galpin, S .
Jowett, T P
Thomas, H C
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ArticleLanguage
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Markers for acute hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis non-A, non-B (HNANB) infections were examined in the sera of 94 patients presenting with acute hepatitis in Kenya. Hepatitis B virus was responsible for 70% of cases, HNANB for 18%, and HAV for only 12%. The use of an IgM anti-HBc assay increased the rate of diagnosis of acute HBV infection, thereby reducing the proportion of cases designated as NANB.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6439821http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30605
Citation
J Med Virol. 1984;14(4):357-62.Publisher
University of Nairobi School of medicine
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10387]