| Literature DB >> 6430994 |
M A Sreenivasan, A Sehgal, S R Prasad, S Dhorje.
Abstract
Between February and March 1981 an epidemic of hepatitis occurred in Kolhapur City, Maharashtra State, India. Approximately 1200 cases of jaundice were reported; more than 300 patients were hospitalized and three died. The epidemiological investigations showed a distinct concentration of cases in municipal ward E of the city. Investigations of the ward E water supply system disclosed gross contamination of raw water with sewage at source. The serological studies revealed that the aetiological agent responsible for this epidemic was neither hepatitis A virus nor hepatitis B virus but was likely to have been due to a non-A, non-B hepatitis virus.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID： 6430994 PMCID： PMC2129269 DOI： 10.1017/s002217240006099x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hyg (Lond) ISSN： 0022-1724