Hepatitis E virus in Indonesia
| Autor: | G.B. Jennings, I. Lubis, K.C. Hyams, E. Listiyaningsih, J.P. Burans |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Hepatitis
Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid business.industry Transmission (medicine) viruses Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health virus diseases Outbreak General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Virology Virus Disease Outbreaks Hepatitis E Serology Infectious Diseases Hepatitis E virus Indonesia Acute Disease Humans Medicine Parasitology business Acute hepatitis |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 88:57 |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0035-9203(94)90497-9 |
| Popis: | Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been identified as a major cause of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis (ET-NANBH) (BRADLEY, 1992). The geographical distribution of HEV transmission in south-east Asia is unknown, although transmission has been reported in Hong Kong (LOK et al., 1992), and HEV complementary deoxyribonucleic acid has been identified in faecal material form patients with acute hepatitis living in West Kalimantan (Formerly Borneo), Indonesia (REYES et al., 1990). The West Kalimantan samples were collected during an ET-NANBH outbreak in 1987 that was reported to have affected 2000 Indonestians (BRADLEY, 1992). Since that time, similar ET-NANBH outbreaks have been reported from the same area in 1989 and 1991 (I. Lubis, unpublished data). HEV may also be common on other islands in the Indonesian archipelago (RUSSELL, 1990). Using a recently developed enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for antibody to hepatitis E Virus (anti-HEV) (GOLDSMITH et al., 1992), we evaluated recurrent HEV transmission in WEst Kalimantan, Indonesia. |
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