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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 40(4), 1989, pp. 438-443
Copyright © 1989 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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An Outbreak of Enterically Transmitted non-A, non-B Hepatitis in Pakistan

Muhammad Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Ashraf Qamar, Kenneth Dixon, J. Fred Duncan, Nasir Ul Islam, Abdul Rauf, Joe P. Bryan, Iftikhar A. Malik AND Llewellyn J. Legters
Pakistan-U.S. Laboratory for Sero-Epidemiology, Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan; and Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

An epidemic of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis occurred at a college in Sargodha, Pakistan in early 1987. There were 133 clinical cases, an attack rate of approximately 20%. Though the disease was relatively mild, all clinical cases required hospitalization and prolonged convalescence. Nearly all cases were associated with a single water source. The epidemic ended when the water supply was improved. This is the 4th described epidemic of non-A, non-B hepatitis in Pakistan.






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