Acute sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis in northeastern Brazil: Etiology and natural history

Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 289-293

  Paraná, Raymundo ^a   Vitvitski, Ludmila ^b   Andrade, Zilton ^c   Trepo, Christian ^b   Cotrim, Helma ^a   Bertillon, Pascale ^b   Silva, Fernanda ^a   Silva, Luciana ^a   De Oliveira, Irismar R ^a   Lyra, Luis ^a,d  

^a Hepatology Unit of Bahia   (Brazil)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHRONICITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REMISSION; TATTOOING; VIRUS DETECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; BRAZIL; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0033000742     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300143     Document Type: Article

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