Infectious Hepatitis

Abstract

THE control of viral hepatitis in both military and civilian populations presents one of the foremost problems in preventive medicine. The adaptation of the etiologic agent or agents to a laboratory animal or to tissue culture and the development of a specific immunologic test would provide tools to speed the solution of the problem. Neither tool is available at present. Man still remains the only established susceptible host. The clinical diagnosis of viral hepatitis is aided by certain practical tests of liver function. These tests are not specific, and possibly are of little value in revealing subclinical cases, which may . . .