| acute jaundice in vientiane, lao people's democratic republic. | analysis of serum samples from patients with acute jaundice by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and polymerase chain reaction testing provided the first profile of this condition in vientiane, lao pdr, in 1995 and 1996. in a case-control, hospital-based study, evidence of acute infections due to hepatitis a and b viruses was found in 14% and 10% of cases, respectively. hepatitis e virus, however, did not appear to contribute to clinically recognized acute jaundice. similarly, antibody ... | 1998 | 9798023 |
| the infective causes of hepatitis and jaundice amongst hospitalised patients in vientiane, laos. | there is little information on the diverse infectious causes of jaundice and hepatitis in the asiatic tropics. serology (hepatitis a, b, c and e, leptospirosis, dengue, rickettsia), antigen tests (dengue), pcr assays (hepatitis a, c and e) and blood cultures (septicaemia) were performed on samples from 392 patients admitted with jaundice or raised transaminases (> or =x3) to mahosot hospital, vientiane, laos over 3 years. conservative definitions suggested diagnoses of dengue (8.4%), rickettsios ... | 2010 | 20378138 |