| hepatitis e virus infection in eastern india. | most cases of enterically transmitted non-a, non-b hepatitis in india have so far been attributed to hepatitis e virus (hev) infection. most of the documented studies of hepatitis have focused on the incidence of this disease in northern, western, and south central india. a small seroprevalence study was conducted in the eastern indian city of patna to assess the degree of hev infection among acute sporadic hepatitis cases. forty-two percent (24 of 57) of the cases of acute sporadic hepatitis we ... | 1998 | 9715942 |