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. 1993 Jun;40(2):121-5.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.1890400208.

Aetiology of acute sporadic non-A, non-B viral hepatitis in India

V A Arankalle  1 , L P Chobe, J Jha, M S Chadha, K Banerjee, M O Favorov, T Kalinina, H Fields
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Aetiology of acute sporadic non-A, non-B viral hepatitis in India

V A Arankalle et al. J Med Virol. 1993 Jun.

Abstract

Non-A, non-B (NANB) hepatitis viruses are now classified as hepatitis E (enterically transmitted) and hepatitis C (parenterally transmitted). India experiences a large number of epidemics of the enteric disease every year. In addition, about 70% of the sporadic cases among adults are also due to NANB hepatitis. With the availability of an immunoblot assay for the detection of anti-HEV-IgM and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of HCV-RNA, serum samples from epidemic and sporadic NANB patients were screened for these markers. We found that a large number of cases from the epidemics were HEV, though a few remained undiagnosed, while of the sporadic cases only a few could be diagnosed as HCV or HEV; a large proportion remained undiagnosed.

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