ABSTRACT Hepatitis A and hepatitis E are the leading causes of acute viral hepatitis in developing countries due to our poor sanitary conditions, both spread by fecal-oral route or through contaminated water and food. Being both self-limiting diseases, they are usually benign but may present with atypica...
Using a metagenomic approach, we identified hepatitis A virus among cases of acute febrile illnesses that occurred in 2008-2012 in Brazil suspected as yellow fever. These findings reinforce the challenge facing routine clinical diagnosis in complex epidemiological scenarios....
O autor faz uma revisäo dos principais aspectos clÃnicos, terapêuticos e profiláticos das hepatites virais agudas, de uma forma prática para o clÃnico....
Entre las hepatitis virales agudas, la causada por el virus A (HVA) es tal vez la de mayor importancia debido a su alta frecuencia derivada de su mecanismo de transmisión fecal-oral. ClÃnicamente la hepatitis A es similar al resto de las hepatitis virales, sin embargo su aparición es más súbita, car...
