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. 1992 May;37(1):58-60.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.1890370110.

Hepatitis E virus: the cause of a waterbourne hepatitis outbreak

S J Skidmore  1 , P O Yarbough, K A Gabor, G R Reyes
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Hepatitis E virus: the cause of a waterbourne hepatitis outbreak

S J Skidmore et al. J Med Virol. 1992 May.

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.

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