[Acute virus hepatitis - infection hygiene recommendations based on current knowledge].
As to the up to now under the uniform collective notion "infectious hepatitis" notifiable diseases according to the actual stage of realization a group of diseases is concerned which are caused by at least 3 pathogens. Apart from the hepatitis A and B it is the hepatitis non-A/non-B for which an unequivocal differentiation of pathogens with standardized methods of proof is still pending. There is no cross-immunity between the individual virus-caused hepatitides. They behave diversely clinically and epidemiologically. The in very case indicated infection-hygienic measures result from the different duration of infectiousness, the ways and modes of transmission. They concern the hygiene of the hospital and the immunoprophylaxis as well as the separation of persons from the environment of patients who work in S-professions (activity in the branch of food-supply, groups of children). The problems concerning chronic carriers of infectious hepatitis B are hitherto still unclarified. The legal regulations up to now valid for this group of persons, the necessary hospital hygiene when they are admitted and possible future ways of solution for the total problem are explained.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000985:Antisepsis / Q000592:standards*; D002353:Carrier State; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000517:prevention & control; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000517:prevention & control; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans
Akute Virushepatitiden - Infektionshygienische Empfehlungen nach neuen Erkenntnissen.