| epidemic non-a, non-b hepatitis in patients from pakistan. | epidemic non-a, non-b hepatitis was diagnosed in three young pakistani men during a 10-month period at the los angeles county-university of southern california medical center. all three patients had recently visited or lived in karachi, pakistan. none had serologic markers of hepatitis b virus infection or igm antibody (acute-phase) to hepatitis a virus. a liver biopsy from one patient showed marked cholestasis and cholangiolar transformation of hepatocytes, a pattern previously described in pat ... | 1987 | 3099621 |
| liver failure attributable to hepatitis a virus infection in a developing country. | in young children hepatitis a virus (hav) infections are usually subclinical events. however, hav is also associated with progressive hepatic failure and even death in some patients. this study was undertaken to characterize the course of hepatitis a-related acute liver failure in children from a developing country where hepatitis a is endemic and produces significant morbidity. patients <15 years of age with confirmed hepatitis a, seen at the aga khan university hospital between january 1991 an ... | 2000 | 10654972 |
| investigating an outbreak of acute viral hepatitis caused by hepatitis e virus variants in karachi, south pakistan. | hepatitis e is a classic water-borne disease in developing countries. detection of anti-hev igm and igg antibodies, in addition to hev rna are useful epidemiological markers in diagnosis of hepatitis e. this study was conducted to investigate an outbreak of acute viral hepatitis in south-pakistan. anti-hev igm and igg were assessed comparatively with serological kits manufactured by abbott, cosmic, tgh, and wantai, selecting hev rna as reference assay. molecular evolutionary analysis was perform ... | 2011 | 21328376 |