Unexpected elevated alanine aminotransferase, asparte aminotransferase levels and hepatitis e virus infection among persons who work with pigs in Accra, Ghana

Virology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Adjei, Andrew A ^a   Tettey, Yao ^a   Aviyase, John T ^a   Adu Gyamfi, Clement ^b   Mingle, Julius A ^a   Nartey, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FARMING SYSTEM; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GHANA; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; GHANA; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649748432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-336     Document Type: Article

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