Publications
| acute hepatitis e in catania (eastern sicily) 1980-1994. the role of hepatitis e virus. | between 1980 and 1994, 540 patients with acute viral hepatitis were admitted to hospital at the department of infectious diseases of catania (eastern sicily). twenty-five patients out of 540 were assessed as having non-a, non-b, non-c hepatitis. these subjects were studied for anti-hev igm and igg seroprevalence by testing serial serum samples collected 1, 4, 12 and 24 weeks after the onset of acute disease. fourteen of 25 samples (56%) seroconverted to anti-hev igg antibodies. no sample was pos ... | 1997 | 9334869 |
| hepatitis e virus (hev) in sewage from treatment plants of messina university hospital and of messina city council. | samples of sewage from treatment plants at the "g. martino" university hospital of messina (aou) and that of messina city council were analysed to detect the hepatits e virus. samples were taken on sewage entering and exiting the treatment plants on a monthly basis over a one-year period from both the hospital plant (24 samples) and the municipal plant (22 samples). all sewage samples were pretreated by ultrafiltraton and concentration and finally processed by the pcr method to amplify gene mate ... | 2010 | 20853673 |