Nonparenteral transmission of viral hepatitis type B (Australia antigen-associated serum hepatitis).

摘要: ALTHOUGH earlier epidemiologic studies suggested that viral hepatitis Type B (serum hepatitis) sometimes could be spread by personal contact,1 it was only recently a nonparenteral (oral) mode of transmission conclusively demonstrated experimentally Krugman and his co-workers.2 , 3 These involved children in whom the infection almost always clinically inapparent had to monitored laboratory tests. The presence Australia (Au/SH) antigen serum but not A patients clearly distinguished these two infections permitted documentation oral-transmission experiments.4 5 Our report presents clinical cases observed over period . . .