pathogens,a special form of human adenovirus(HAdV)and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARSCoV-2).Acute hepatitis has been reported in children with multisystem infammatory syndrome(MIS-C)and incorporating insights from the immunology perspective is necessary to fully understand this ...
The World Health Organization said it is investigating an outbreak of acute hepatitis among children that now involves 11 countries, including the United States.
The country's Health Ministry was currently conducting laboratory investigations into the deaths of the three children, which is likely similar to a severe acute hepatitis outbreak that has sickened hundreds of children in more than a dozen countries. The three children, aged two, eight and 11, ...
STOCKHOLM, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Nine children in Sweden have fallen ill with suspected acute hepatitis without any apparent cause, the country's Public Health Agency said on Tuesday. "It is very unusual but does occur that a child suffers from acute hepatitis with an unknown cause. The Swedis...
Since its first identification in Scotland, over 1,000 cases of unexplained paediatric hepatitis in children have been reported worldwide, including 278 cases in the UK1. Here we report an investigation of 38 cases, 66 age-matched immunocompetent control
viral hepatitisacutechronicAcute viral hepatitis spans a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations in children and adults. A detailed medical history and appropriate selection of laboratory tests will aid in the diagnosis and help distinguish acute from chronic disease. Treatment should be selected based ...
Study on acute hepatitis B among children and adolescents in the U.S. from 1990-2002. Fining that the incidence of disease in these age groups has declined mostly in children born after the 1991 recommendation for universal health hepatitis B vaccination; Details of the study;...
As of August 2022, clusters of acute severe hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children have been reported from 35 countries, including the USA1,2. Previous studies have found human adenoviruses (HAdVs) in the blood from patients in Europe and the USA3,4,5,6,7, although it is unclear whet...
Kacerka A, Wojcik K, Kuydowicz J et al.: An evaluation of the relationship between rotavirus diarrhoea and bacterial infec- tion and acute hepatitis in children. Gastroenterol Pol 2009; 16: 446-448.Kacerka, A., Wojcik, K., Kuydowicz, J., et al. (2009) An Evaluation of the ...
In children in the US and UK, a sudden increase in the number of cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown causes (SAHUC) and pediatric acute liver failure was reported between October 2021 and May 2022. As of June 22, 2022, 920 cases of SAHUC were repo