Retrospective analysis of hospital electronic health records reveals unseen cases of acute hepatitis with unknown aetiology in adults in Oxfordshire

• Main Authors: Cedric C. S. Tan (Author), Gavin Kelly (Author), Jack Cregan (Author), Joseph D. Wilson (Author), Tim James (Author), Meera Chand (Author), Susan Hopkins (Author), Maaike Swets (Author), J. Kenneth Baillie (Author), Katie Jeffery (Author), Ann Sarah Walker (Author), David W. Eyre (Author), Nicole Stoesser (Author), Philippa C. Matthews (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background An outbreak of acute severe hepatitis of unknown aetiology (AS-Hep-UA) in children during 2022 was subsequently linked to infections with adenovirus-associated virus 2 and other 'helper viruses', including human adenovirus. It is possible that evidence of such an outbre...