An institutional outbreak of hepatitis E--reported first time from Calcutta city
Neogi, D.K.; Bhattacharya, N.; De, P.N.; Chakravarti, T.; Hati, A.K.; Prakash, C.; Datta, K.K.; Mukherjee, K.K.
Journal of Communicable Diseases 27(4): 229-233
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5138 PMID: 8866987 Document Number: 448382
A sudden outbreak of hepatitis occurred in a micro-epidemic form, amongst the staff members of the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, during May-June, 1995. A total of 21 persons developed jaundice, out of whom 11 members who attended the Virology Department and were tested for detection of different serological markers of hepatitis by ELISA. All the sera (N = 11) showed evidence of non-A, non-B infection by process of exclusion and 9 of the above sera showed evidence of anti-HEV when tested specifically. This is the first documented outbreak of viral hepatitis in respect of Calcutta.
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