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Performed the antigen studies for hepatitis A and B on the serum samples of patients from this epidemic.T%ese results have been mentioned in the earlier paper and will be described in detail elsewhere. A prospective field study was carried out during an epidemic of non-A non-B hepatitis for determining the incidence and severity of hepatitis in pregnant women, nonpregnant women of child bearing age and men (15 to 45 years old). In 36 (17.3 percent) of 208 pregnant women viral hepatitis developed, as compared to ~l(2.1 percent) of 3,350 nonpregnant women and 107 (2.8 percent) of 3,822 men. The incidence of disease in pregnant women was higher than in the two control groups. The incidence of viral hepatitis in the first, second and third trimesters was a.8 percent, lg.4 percent, and 18.6 percent, respectively. The incidence in all three trimesters was higher, when compared to that in nonpregnant women. In eight pregnant women (22.2 percent) with viral hepatitis, fuhninant hepatic failure developed, as compared to its occurrence in three men (2.8 percent) and in no nonpregnant women. This significantly increased incidence of fulminant hepatitis in pregnancy was indicative of a greater
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- Author
- Mohammad Sultan Khuroo; Mohammed Ramzan Teli; Susan Skidmore; Mohammad Amin Sofi; Mohammad Ismail Khuroo
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1981
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)