[Contact lens-fitting, a hepatitis risk? (author's transl)].
Hepatitis-B-antigen has been demonstrated by the radioimmunologic method in 5 out of 40 patients with acute or chronic HBs-antigen-positive hepatic disease. The importance of this finding as to the transferral of hepatitis by the fitting of contact lenses and its consequences are discussed.
D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006511:Hepatitis B Antigens / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D013666:Tears / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology
D006511:Hepatitis B Antigens
Kontaktlinsenanpassung: Ein Hepatitisrisiko?