| detection of hantaviral antibodies among patients with hepatitis of unknown etiology in japan. | hantaviral antibodies were detected in the sera from patients with hepatic disease of unknown etiology in japan by several different serological diagnostic methods. a total of 105 sera from diseased patients which were negative to a-g hepatitis virus infections in the tokyo area were tested. among them, 3 out of 73 sera from patients with chronic hepatic disease were positive to hantaviral antibody by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa), indirect immunofluorescent antibody assay (ifa) and ... | 2000 | 10888353 |