hepatitis B
serum hepatitis

In most cases, hepatitis B goes away on its own.

You or your parents are from a part of the world where hepatitis B is common.

Hepatitis B is a major public health problem in most countries of the world.

Elsewhere in the world, hepatitis B is much more common.

The hepatitis B virus can be found in this group.

In over half of all hepatitis B cases the source cannot be identified.

She was involved with work on hepatitis B and the cold virus.

Hepatitis B, on the other hand, may survive up to a week.

Throughout the world, the virus hepatitis B has recently become a major health problem.

One paper concerned what turned out to be the hepatitis B virus.

About a third of people with hepatitis B admit to no risk factors.

Of these, 18, or 13 percent, developed hepatitis B infection.

In addition, a mother can pass hepatitis B to her baby during birth.

Hepatitis B also may become chronic but can be managed.

But hepatitis B is described as being rampant in the population.

An infected woman can give hepatitis B to her baby at birth.

Yes, there are medications for hepatitis B - but no, not everyone needs them.

The three high-risk groups account for 59 percent of all hepatitis B cases.

A case in point, he noted, is the hepatitis B vaccine, on the market for two years.

Make sure everyone in your household gets the hepatitis B vaccine.

There is a vaccine against hepatitis B, but it will not help if you already have the disease.

Hepatitis B vaccine, given in a series of 3 shots.

A hepatitis B education program incorporated into the school curriculum.

I am from a country where Hepatitis B is common.

They should have no history of serum hepatitis, malaria, acquired immune deficiency syndrome or intravenous drug abuse.

It was discovered to be part of the virus that caused serum hepatitis by virologist Alfred Prince in 1968.

"Allen was the first to observe that the serum hepatitis virus in plasma could be inactivated by storing it at room temperature for six months."

Hepatitis B, formerly called 'serum hepatitis' is found in virtually all body fluids and secretions.

After several weeks, and up to eight months later, 191 of the vaccinated workers became ill with jaundice and were diagnosed as suffering from serum hepatitis.

The disease, originally known as "serum hepatitis", has caused epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa, and it is endemic in China.

Risk of hepatocellular carcinoma across a biological gradient of serum hepatitis B virus DNA level.

Preliminary data suggest that it is effective but decreases serum hepatitis C virus RNA at a slower rate than interferon alfa.

Nearly anyone, not just health care workers, recipients of blood transfusions and homosexual men with multiple partners, can acquire this potentially fatal infection, which used to be called serum hepatitis.

These are the patients who acquire an illness, like serum hepatitis, that is transmitted through blood or who suffer a reaction to the foreign tissue that was transfused into their veins.

One you get from sticking dirty needles in your arm (serum hepatitis) and the other more common strain from eating infected food or having intimate contact with an infected carrier (infectious hepatitis).

Serum hepatitis B virus-DNA was assayed by spot hybridisation with P-labelled cloned hepatitis B virus-DNA, as reported previously.

Moreover, two thirds of the liver-kidney microsomal positive cases had serum hepatitis C virus-RNA, as judged from the positivity of sensitive 'nested' PCR.

Thereby immune complexes were detected and quantitated in serum hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and malignancies.

The incubation period for type A hepatitis was accepted as being much shorter than those for serum hepatitis, but research into either form of hepatitis was hampered by an inability to identify the causative agent.

Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as 'serum hepatitis' because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion, needlesticks, and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented.