Hepatitis of Unknown Origin and Etiology (Acute Non HepA-E Hepatitis) among Children in 2021/2022: Review of the Current Findings

• Published in: Healthcare (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 6; p. 973
• Main Authors: Sallam, Malik, Mahafzah, Azmi, Şahin, Gülşen Özkaya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 24.05.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Adenoviruses; Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin; Clinical Medicine; Environmental Health and Occupational Health; Etiology; Health Sciences; Hepatitis; Hypotheses; Hälsovetenskap; Infections; Infectious Medicine; Infektionsmedicin; Klinisk medicin; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; novel; Occupational Health and Environmental Health; outbreak; public health promotion; Review; unknown etiology; unknown hepatitis; Viruses; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Japan; Europe; Scotland; Alabama; North America; Portugal; Spain; Canada; Sweden; Asia; Ireland; Italy; Israel; Indonesia

Several clusters and individual cases of acute hepatitis have been reported in the US, Europe and recently in Asia and Central America since October 2021. A laboratory investigation of the common viral hepatitis agents (HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV) yielded negative results prompting the use of the te...