1. Chronic hepatitis B in adopted Romanian children.
- Author
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Zwiener RJ, Fielman BA, and Squires RH Jr
- Subjects
- Child, Humans, Romania ethnology, United States, Adoption, Hepatitis B diagnosis, Hepatitis D diagnosis, Hepatitis, Chronic diagnosis
- Abstract
Four of five Romanian orphans adopted by U.S. families were found to have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection after negative test results were reported in Romania before adoption. Another child with known HBV infection was found to be coinfected with hepatitis D virus. There is a high incidence of HBV infection in Romanian orphans, and results of tests for HBV are unreliable in Romania.
- Published
- 1992
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