Summary
In November 1987 an epidemic of NANB-hepatitis broke out in a residential colony of South Delhi which lasted for nearly two months. The epidemic was caused due to the sewage contamination of the drinking water supply. Analysis of the epidemiological data showed that the disease was more common in the younger age group of 11–20 years and that both sexes were equally prone to the disease. The disease could be transmitted to rhesus monkeys by intravenous inoculation of the stool extracts from the patients. Experimentally infected monkeys showed elevated levels of serum aminotransferases and excreted the infectious agent in the stools. Hepatic lesions characteristic of enteric non-A, non-B hepatitis were observed in an infected monkey.
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Vrati, S., Giri, D.K., Parida, S.K. et al. An epidemic of non-A, non-B hepatitis in South Delhi: epidemiological studies and transmission of the disease to rhesus monkeys. Archives of Virology 125, 319–326 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01309649
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