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Hepatitis Epidemic

There are some descriptions of water-borne outbreaks, or even small epidemics of acute gastroenteritis (diarrhoea), cholera and hepatitis E associated with catastrophic floods that occurred in developing countries, such as Sudan [34, 35], Nicaragua [36], Mozambique [37] and West Bengal [37]. On the contrary, no changes in the base-line outbreak incidence have been reported in developed countries after major floods [37, 38]. When infrastructures and water management are adequate, outbreaks of faecal-oral water-borne infectious diseases do not follow flood events, even in the case where water flooding has compromised the security of water facilities [37]. [Pg.154]

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is responsible for a world-wide epidemic with approximately 170 million people infected. It was identified only in the 1980s and since that time great efforts have been made in the search for treatments. Genetic analysis of the virus revealed coding for a serine protease (NS3) and the first clinical studies on inhibitors of the protease have recently been carried out. Chapter 2 presents a review of the medicinal chemistry approaches to this target. [Pg.398]

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Dengue, measles, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rubella, tick bite fever, epidemic typhus, Q fever, typhoid, malaria, trypanosomiasis, hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, herpes, and influenza. [Pg.539]

The European bubonic plague of 1347 killed one-third of the population of Europe. It is the largest single plague ever recorded. The disappearance of the Aztec civilization was spurred by smallpox and measles introduced by Hernando Cortes and his band of Spanish invaders. The same diseases also decimated Native Americans in what is now the United States. Much more recently, the influenza epidemic of 1918 killed an estimated 40 million people worldwide. Malaria continues to be a major problem for people and their countries today in areas in which it is endemic. AIDS, tuberculosis, influenza, hepatitis, pneumonia, and a lengthy list of parasitic infections continue as important constraints on the welfare of people throughout the world. [Pg.317]

One result is that needle sharing among injection drug users is now a major force driving the HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in America. ... [Pg.15]

Blood is also regularly tested, not just for blood group compatibility, but also for infections carried in the blood such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B and C viruses. Early in the AIDS epidemic, before the AIDS virus was identified and a test developed to detect whether a person has been exposed to the virus, patients did contract HIV through blood transfusions. Today, every unit of donated blood is tested for the presence of HIV, as well as for hepatitis B and C viruses. [Pg.108]

M18. Mirick, G. S., and Shank, R. E., An epidemic of serum hepatitis studied under controlled conditions. Trans. Am. Clin. Climatol. Assoc. 71, 176-190 (1959). [Pg.52]

Naik, S.R. Hepatitis E virus genome in stools of hepatitis patients during large epidemic in North India. Lancet 1991 338 783-784... [Pg.124]

Dible, XH., McMichael, X, Sherlock, S. Pathology of acute hepatitis aspiration biopsy studies of epidemic, arsenotherapy and serum jaundice. Lancet 1943 245 402-408... [Pg.163]

Lucke, B., Mallory, T. The fulminant form of epidemic hepatitis. Amer. X Pathol. 1946 22 867-945... [Pg.389]

Infectious jaundice presents the most imposing clinical picture in hepatology and has occupied physicians for more than 2,500 years, caused epidemics and pandemics all over the world (thus significantly influencing the outcome of wars), led to innumerable experiments as well as controversial theories and culminated in absurd speculations including treatment by the oral administration of live sheep lice (a practice still occasionally found nowadays). Today, hepatitis viruses have been (almost) fully explained down to the last molecular, biological and serological detail. [Pg.414]

Neefe, J.R., Stokes, J.jr., Reinhold, J.G. Oral administration to volunteers of feces from patients with homologous serum hepatitis and infectious (epidemic) hepatitis. Amer. J. Med. Sci. 1945 210 29-32... [Pg.452]

O Donovan, D., Cooke, R.P.D., Joce, R., Eastbury, A., Waite, J., Stene-Johansen, K. An outbreak of hepatitis A amongst injecting drug users. Epidem. Infect. 2001 127 469-473... [Pg.453]

Stene-Johansen, K., Jennm, PA., Hoei, T., Biystad, H., Snnde, H., Skaug, K. An outbreak of hepatitis A among homosexuals linked to a family outbreak. Epidem. Infect. 2002 129 113-117... [Pg.453]

Giotakos, O., Bonrtsonkli, R, Paraskeyopoulou, T., Spandoni, R, Stas-inos, S., Boulongouri, D., Spirakon, E. Prevalence and risk factors of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in a forensic population of rapists and child molesters. Epidem. Infect. 2003 130 497-500... [Pg.454]

Khan, A.J., Cotter, S.M., Schulz, B., Hu, Y.L., Roseuberg, J., Robertson, B.H., Fiore, A.E., Bell, B.R. Nosocomial transmission of hepatitis B virus infection among residents with diabetes in a skiUed nursing facility Inf Contr. Hosp. Epidem. 2002 23 313-318... [Pg.454]

A hepatitis B virus mutant associated with an epidemic of fulminant hepatitis. New Engl. J. Med. 1991 324 1705-1709... [Pg.454]

Spijkerman, I.J.B., van Hoorn, L.J., Janssen, M.H.W., Wijkmans, C.J., Bikert-Mooiman, M.A.J., Continho, R.A., Weers-Pothoff, G. Transmission of hepatitis B virus from a surgeon to his patients during high-risk and low-risk surgical procedures during 4 years. Inf Contr. Hosp. Epidem. 2002 23 306-312... [Pg.455]

Datz, C., Cramp, M., Haas, T., Dietze, O., Nitschko, H., Froesner, G., Muss, N., Sandhofer, F., Vogel, W. The natural course of hepatitis C virus infection 18 years after an epidemic outbreak of non-A, non-B hepatitis in a plasmapheresis centre. Gut 1999 44 563-567... [Pg.456]

Delarocque-Astagneau, E., Baffoy, N., Thiers, V., Simon, N., de Valk, H., Laperche, S., Courouce, A.M., Astagneau, R, Buisson, C., Desen-cios, J.C, Outbreak of hepatitis C virus infection in a hemodialysis unit Potential transmission by the hemodialysis machine Infect. Contr. Hosp. Epidem. 2002 23 328—334... [Pg.456]

Krause, G., Trepka, M.J., Whisenhunt, R.S., Katz, D., Nainan, O., Wiersma, S.T., Hopkins, R.S. Nosocomial transmission of hepatitis C virus associated with the use of multidose saline vials. Infect. Contr. Hosp. Epidem. 2003 24 122-127... [Pg.457]

Craxi, A., Tint, F., Vinci, M., Almasio, R, Camma, C., Garofalo, G., Ragiiaro, L. Transmission of hepatitis B and hepatitis delta viruses in the households of chronic hepatitis B surface antigen carriers a regression analysis of indicators of risk. Amer. J. Epidem. 1991 134 641-650... [Pg.459]

Khnroo, M.S. Study of an epidemic of non-A, non-B hepatitis. Possibility of another human hepatitis virus distinct from post-transfusion non-A, non-B type. Amer. J. Med. 1980 68 818-824... [Pg.460]

Ray, R., Aggarwal, R., Salunke, P.N., Mehrotra, N.N., Talwar, G.R, Naik, S.R. Hepatitis E virus genome in stools of hepatitis patients during large epidemic in north India. Lancet 1991 338 783-784... [Pg.460]

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