Infección con el virus de la hepatitis E en Chile: comunicación preliminar / Hepatitis E virus infection in Chile: preliminary report

ABSTRACT

Using and Elisa technique, IgG antibodies against hepatitis E virus were measured in 40 alcoholics, 40 hemophilics, 174 blood donors, 36 subjects with acute non A non B non C hepatitis and 66 subjects with acute hepatitis A. Antibodies were detected in 1 alcoholic (2,5 percent), 3 hemophilics (7,5 percent), 7 blood donors (4 percent), 3 patients with non-A-non-B-non-C hepatitis (8,3 percent) and 3 patients with acute hepatitis A (4,5 percent). A low frequency of hepatitis E infection was detected in the studied subjects: