Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Author "Jameel, S"

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    • Chronic hepatitis in a large Indian hospital. 

      Panda, SK; Duphare, H; Dasarathy, S; Ramesh, R; Jameel, S; Nijhawan, S; Irshad, M; Tandon, BN; Acharya, KS (Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1993)
      BACKGROUND. In developed countries as well as in Southeast Asia, the hepatitis B and C viruses are the main causes of chronic hepatitis. In India, however, there have been no major investigations on the aetiology of chronic ...

    • The epidemiologic significance and clinical pattern of HCV induced chronic hepatitis in India. 

      Nanda, SK; Panda, SK; Jameel, S; Dasarathy, S (Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1994)
      Hepatitis C virus (HCV) ribonucleic acid (RNA) was tested for in a group of 16 defined non-B chronic hepatitis patients using specific reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). These were chosen from amongst ...

    • Etiological role of hepatitis E virus in sporadic fulminant hepatitis 

      Nanda, SK; Yalcinkaya, K; Panigrahi, AK; Jameel, S; Panda, SK; Acharya, KS (Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1994)
      Non-A, non-B hepatitis viruses have been implicated as the etiological agent(s) in up to 60% of patients with fulminant hepatitis. These agents are reported to induce a higher mortality than other causes of fulminant ...

    • Genotype determination of hepatitis C virus from northern India: identification of a new subtype.J Med Virol. 

      Panigrahi, AK; Roca, J; Jameel, S; Panda, SK; Acharya, KS (Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1996)
      Hepatitis C virus (HCV) shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome, with many variants showing only 68-79% overall sequence homology. This has led to problems in diagnosis of ...