| an epidemic outbreak of hepatitis e in yangon of myanmar: antibody assay and animal transmission of the virus. | an epidemic outbreak of hepatitis e occurred in an army recruit camp of yangon, myanmar, in october 1989. one hundred and eleven patients among 600 residents were hospitalized. as high as 83.7% of these patients were positive for the acute phase antibody against hepatitis e virus by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed in our laboratory. also, 30.6% of 49 symptom-free residents examined were positive for the antibody. we prepared a stool extract from six patients and inoculated it into ... | 1993 | 8257479 |