Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis Not Due to Viral Hepatitis Type A or B
- 10 April 1975
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 292 (15), 767-770
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197504102921502
Abstract
Twenty-two patients who had an episode of transfusion-associated hepatitis not positive for hepatitis B antigen were examined for development of antibody to hepatitis A and B antigens, cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus. Antibody response to the 27-nm virus-like hepatitis A antigen was measured by immune electron microscopy. In none of the 22 patients studied did serologic evidence of infection with hepatitis A virus develop during the study period. Nine of the 22 patients had antibody responses to cytomegalovirus, but it was difficult to relate these seroconversions to their hepatitis. In addition, all 22 patients had pre-existing antibody to the Epstein-Barr virus. It seems likely that at least a proportion of such antigen-negative transfusion-associated hepatitis is caused by other infectious agents, not yet identified. (N Engl J Med 292:767–770, 1975)Keywords
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