Outbreak (HEV)
"Association of Hepatitis E Virus With an Outbreak of Hepatitis at a Military Training Camp in Nepal."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 13th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Medical Virology, "From 29 January 1995 to 15 March 1995, an outbreak of hepatitis occurred among 692 soldiers at an isolated training camp 25 km east of Kathmandu. Thirty-two cases occurred approximately 8 weeks after arrival of soldiers at the camp. To determine the etiology of the outbreak, patient sera were examined for evidence of infection with hepatitis A, B, C, and E viruses using commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detect hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA. Evidence of recent infection (IgM to HEV and/or HEV RNA) was found in all...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1998-04-13)
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