Estimating Acute Viral Hepatitis Infections From Nationally Reported Cases

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ID11037201
AutoresMonina Klevens (0000-0003-2073-5576, At the time of the study, all authors were with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.), R Monina Klevens, Stephen Liu (At the time of the study, all authors were with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.), Stephen V Liu (0000-0002-4852-3914, National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention), Henry Roberts (0000-0003-4528-0811, At the time of the study, all authors were with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.), Ruth B Jiles (At the time of the study, all authors were with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.), Ruth Jiles (0000-0002-7132-4008, National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention), Scott D Holmberg (At the time of the study, all authors were with the Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.)
Año2014
Volumen104
Número3
Páginas482-487
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2013.301601
PMID24432918
OpenAlexW2025400125
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas36

Objectives. Because only a fraction of patients with acute viral hepatitis A, B, and C are reported through national surveillance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we estimated the true numbers. Methods. We applied a simple probabilistic model to estimate the fraction of patients with acute hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C who would have been symptomatic, would have sought health care tests, and would have been reported to health officials in 2011. Results. For hepatitis A, the frequencies of symptoms (85%), care seeking (88%), and reporting (69%) yielded an estimate of 2730 infections (2.0 infections per reported case). For hepatitis B, the frequencies of symptoms (39%), care seeking (88%), and reporting (45%) indicated 18 730 infections (6.5 infections per reported case). For hepatitis C, the frequency of symptoms among injection drug users (13%) and those infected otherwise (48%), proportion seeking care (88%), and percentage reported (53%) indicated 17 100 infections (12.3 infections per reported case). Conclusions. These adjustment factors will allow state and local health authorities to estimate acute hepatitis infections locally and plan prevention activities accordingly

Environmental health · Hepatitis · Hepatitis A · Viral hepatitis · Hepatitis B Virus Studies · Hepatitis C virus research · Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Virology