| acute viral hepatitis in auckland. | a community survey was undertaken in order to determine the seroepidemiologic pattern of acute viral hepatitis in auckland. as hospital records and health department notifications underestimate the problem, all patients with a serum alanine transpeptidase (alt) level of greater than 200 mu/l (x 5 normal) were investigated for viral liver disease. over a four month period a total of 303 cases of acute viral hepatitis were identified, 49 (16.2%) were hepatitis a, 11 with coincident hepatitis b, 88 ... | 1987 | 3031565 |