[Clinical and epidemiological manifestations of acute viral hepatitis in workers of chemical industry enterprises].

The paper presents epidemiological and clinical findings in patients with acute viral hepatitis A, B, or C, whose occupation is associated with the entrance of chemicals into the working area air. Patients who are not engaged in chemical industry are a control group. It has been found that adults who had adverse working conditions show an intensified epidemic process of acute viral hepatitis and a more aggravated infectious process. It is necessary to regard workers at chemical industrial enterprises as a risk group who will have more severe acute viral hepatitis of different etiology.