between 15 october and 23 december 1975, a total of 22 cases of infectious hepatitis were reported from an upper class private school in the suburbs of tehran. careful examination revealed that one of the early cases had transmitted the disease to other children in the school during the last days of the incubation period.

Background The term ‘‘jaundice’’ was used as early as in the ancient Greece when Hippocrates described an illness probably corresponding to a viral hepatitis. However, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century AU :1 when a form of hepatitis was associated to an infectious disease occurring in epidemics and the term ‘‘infectious hepatitis’’ was established. Later on in the early 19...

Alcoholic hepatitis is a condition with high mortality and morbidity. It routine to have infectious complications alcoholic hepatitis. However, ischiorectal abscess its unique management challenges has not been described in the literature. We describe here case of hepatitis, how post-operative course much more complicated due underlying

conclusions the prevalence of anti-hbc among the elderly in the city of tubarão was higher than in previous studies evaluating blood donors in the same region. despite the association of previous hbv infection and factors indirectly related to sexual risk behaviors, the results suggest the involvement of invasive therapeutic procedures in the hbv transmission chain. patients and methods this cr...

Infectious hepatitis is epidemiologically and immunologically distinct from serum hepatitis. The Australia antigen is related more specifically to serum hepatitis. The possible role of coronavirus-and paramyxovirus-like particles in the aetiology of some infections of the liver in man and in marmosets inoculated with human infectious hepatitis material is discussed and the difficulties in the i...

background: with the growing trend of unhealthy behaviors in the community, the likelihood of transmission of hepatitis b virus from infected people to society is increasing. so, early detection for preventing disease progression in patients and preventing the spread to the community has an important role. the aim of this study is assessment of risk factors in patients with chronic hepatitis b ...

Infectious mononucleosis due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection sometimes causes acute hepatitis, which is usually self-limiting with mildly elevated transaminases, but rarely with jaundice. Primary EBV infection in children is usually asymptomatic, but in a small number of healthy individuals, typically young adults, EBV infection results in a clinical syndrome of infectious mononucleosis w...