title: A hospital based study of hepatitis E by serology.
abstract: Hepatitis E virus is recently recognised as an important cause of non-A, non-B hepatitis. A total of 569 serum samples were screened for HEV between April 1997 and March 2000, by a commercially available HEV IgM capture ELISA. The diagnosis was invariably acute viral hepatitis for differential diagnosis of jaundice. The percentage of seropositivity was found to be 18.8% in confirmed Hepatitis E cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore - 560034, Karnataka, India.
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: H
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authors.lastname: Srinivasa
authors.forename: S
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authors.lastname: Muralidharan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Charles
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Macaden