Tribunnews Reporter, Fitri Wulandari
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, NEW DELHI – Research team at India participate in studying the possibility of whether the corona virus (Covid-19) has caused the emergence of dozens of cases acute hepatitis of unknown cause in the group of children in India Middle period April to July 2021.
The results are only getting attention now, because similar cases have happened around the world recently.
Quoted from the page www.cbc.caSunday (05/15/2022), their observational preprint study which has not been peer reviewed due to funding challenges, analyzed 475 children from all over the world. India who tested positive Covid-19.
From the analysis, 47 of them showed cases of severe hepatitis.
Then among that group, 10 were found to have symptoms of Multiple Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) but this suspicion was ruled out.
The remaining 37 were classified as having what the researchers called COVID-19 Associated Hepatitis in Children (CAH-C).
“One common factor that we found was that they were all infected, or they all had a history of Covid-19. We also did antibody tests for Covid-19 on these children, and the maximum number of children who came with the disease was antibody positive,” he said. the study’s lead author, Microbiologist, and Professor at Bundelkhand Medical College in Madhya Pradesh, India, Dr. Sumit Treat.
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The researchers India then look for other common causes behind 37 cases acute hepatitis severe, ranging from hepatitis A, C, E and others such as varicella-zoster virus, herpes and cytomegalovirus (CMV).
But did not find anything that can explain the symptoms.
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