title: Fulminant delta hepatitis among Swedish drug addicts.
abstract: Between 1979 and 1984 11 cases of fulminant hepatitis were seen at the Department of Infectious Diseases in Lund, Sweden. Four cases were associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Besides, all 4 patients had serological evidence of delta infection. Two were considered to be simultaneous HBV and delta agent infections, the other 2 were found to be delta superinfections in chronic HBsAg carriers. All 4 patients were intravenous drug addicts. The other 7 cases of fulminant hepatitis had no serological evidence of neither hepatitis A nor B virus infections and none of them were intravenous drug addicts.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D003699:Hepatitis D / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D013548:Sweden