ALLMedicine™ Hepatitis A Center

Jun 27th, 2022 - Independent evaluations that deploy clinical patient samples are important in assessing the performance of commercial tests used for serological screening of viral hepatitis and HIV in clinical laboratories. We compared the analytical performance ...

Jun 22nd, 2022 - Prisoners represent high-risk behaviors such as injecting drug use, sharing syringes, tattooing, and unprotected sexual intercourse. The authors aimed to study the prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and hepatitis D in the prisoners. We conduc...

Jun 17th, 2022 - In women vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), reductions in cervical disease and related procedures results in more women having intact transformation zones, potentially increasing the risk of cervical lesions caused by non-vaccine-preve...

Jun 16th, 2022 - Hepatitis A is a sexually transmitted enteric infection in men who have sex with men (MSM). HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has increased opportunities for sexual health interventions in MSM. 588 (372 in 2019, 216 in 2021) MSM attended for the...

Jun 16th, 2022 - The reference range for adults (males and females) is as follows[1] : Total leukocytes (adults and children >2 years) - 5000-10,000/mm3 Total leukocytes (children aged 2 years or below) - 6200-17,000/mm3 Total leukocytes (neonates) - 9000-30,000/m...

Nov 2nd, 2018 - Postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) with hepatitis A (HepA) vaccine or immune globulin (IG) effectively prevents infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV) when administered within 2 weeks of exposure. Preexposure prophylaxis against HAV infection through ...

Feb 9th, 2017 - The adolescent period heralds the pediatric patient's transition into adulthood. It is a time of dynamic development during which effective preventive care measures can promote safe behaviors and the development of lifelong health habits. One of t...

Dec 21st, 2016 - Clinicians are required to assess abnormal liver chemistries on a daily basis. The most common liver chemistries ordered are serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin. These tests sh...

Dec 7th, 2011 - Recent trends suggest that the prevalence of hepatitis infection has declined in populations vaccinated against the hepatitis viruses. Still, with an estimated 20,000 new infections annually in the United States from human hepatitis A virus, as ma...

Sep 29th, 2011 - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend routine administration of hepatitis A vaccine for household members and close contacts, inclu...

Jun 7th, 2022 - Children between the ages of 1 and 4 years old (inclusive) will be enrolled. All will receive PCV and hepatitis A vaccination. Those randomized to the treatment arm will receive 10,000 IU orally at the time of vaccination, while those randomized t...

May 25th, 2022 - This is a prospective, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study aimed to assess the safety and clinical efficacy of FMT for the treatment of mild-moderate AD, and to assess the change in the fecal microbiota following FMT in the study population. ...

Apr 14th, 2022 - This study is a randomized, placebo-controlled and opened, phase 4 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine(CoronaVac）in healthy population aged 18 years and older . The experimental vaccine is m...

Apr 14th, 2022 - This study is a phase 4 clinical trial to evaluate the immunogenicity,safety and cross-immune response of booster immunization using COVID-19 vaccine，to compare the similarities and differences of immune responses between primary immunization and...

Apr 8th, 2022 - Two prophylactic vaccines (Gardasil by Merck, and Cervarix by GlaxoSmithKline) have been proven in randomized controlled trials (RCT) to be highly effective in preventing infection against the target HPV types (HPV-6, 11, 16 and 18, for Gardasil, ...

Jun 20th, 2022 - North Korean officials have reported a major outbreak of another infectious disease, which is affecting at least 800 families so far. Medical crews and disease investigators were sent to Haeju City in South Hwanghae province for an "acute enteric ...

May 31st, 2022 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food safety regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the United States and 10 in Canada, the agenci...

May 6th, 2022 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now investigating 109 cases of unexplained pediatric hepatitis cases in 25 US states and territories, the public health agency said today. Nearly all the children (90%) required hospitalizati...

May 6th, 2022 - At least 228 probable cases of severe hepatitis in children have been reported across 20 countries worldwide, according to the World Health Organization on May 4. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is invest...

Apr 29th, 2022 - Adenovirus was detected in the blood specimens of all nine children with acute hepatitis infection identified in Alabama from October 2021 to February 2022, researchers found. The nine children were 0 to 6 years old and previously healthy, and mos...