| hepatitis delta virus infection in acute hepatitis in kuwait. | over a period of 1 year, 254 patients presenting with acute hepatitis at the infectious disease hospital, kuwait were positive for hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag). of these, 23 (9%) patients were found to have antibodies to hepatitis d virus (hdv) (anti-hdv). eight of these anti-hdv positive patients were shown to have a coinfection with acute hepatitis b and 8 had a superinfection of hdv on a chronic hbsag infection. the remaining 7 had had a previous hdv infection and were also chronic car ... | 1988 | 3363303 |