| hepatitis e virus: the cause of a waterbourne hepatitis outbreak. | newly developed assays for antibody to hepatitis e virus (hev) were used to study 114 serum samples collected during an outbreak of enterically transmitted hepatitis that occurred in kashmir in 1978/9. the sera included samples from patients with viral hepatitis, anicteric hepatitis, contacts of cases, and unaffected persons. a total of 71% of patients with viral hepatitis were found positive for anti-hev specific igg, and 75% of these were also positive for igm. these data confirm the hepatitis ... | 1992 | 1619398 |