title: Etiological spectrum of acute sporadic viral hepatitis amongst adults in Chandigarh.
abstract: All 77 HBsAg positive and 94 of representative HBsAg negative sera derived from 253 adult patients with acute sporadic viral hepatitis during 1987 at Chandigarh were tested for serological markers of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections. The HBsAg positive patients could be classified as acute hepatitis B (64%); chronic hepatitis B with exacerbation, or liver damage by other infectious or noninfectious agent/s over a chronic HBsAg carrier state (35%); and coinfection of HBV and HAV (1%). Among the HBsAg negative hepatitis group, acute hepatitis B was diagnosed in 4 per cent of patients and acute hepatitis A in another 4 per cent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Khandelwal
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Pal
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens