Epidemiology

non-A, non-B Genotype Prevalent in Developing World

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 15th, 1996

In the largest study reported to date examining fulminant hepatitis in a tropical population, researchers found that non-A, non-B expression seems to be the dominant hepatotropic viral infection among these patients.

The majority of reports on fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) have been from the West, most often from the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

"The profiles of patients with FHF from developing countries have not been reported earlier," researcher S.K. Acharya and colleagues wrote ("Fulminant Hepatitis in a Tropical Population: Clinical Course, Cause, and Early Predictors of Outcome," Hepatology, June 1996;23(6):1448-1455).

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