Gerasun B A, Titov M B
Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 1988 Oct(10):38-41.
The results obtained in the study of the characteristic features of the spread of viral hepatitis B under the conditions of family foci are presented. Children with viral hepatitis B have been found to infect 4-5 persons per 1,000 contacts, while adults infect not more than 1 person per 1,000 contacts. The results of the study have led to the conclusion that the idea of the potential danger of hepatitis B patients as the source of infection depends on the forms of the infectious process taken into account in evaluating its epidemiological significance. Latent cases of hepatitis B virus infection appear more frequently among the contacts of sick children than among those of sick adults, but the manifest forms of the disease are more frequently caused by infection contacted from sick adults.
本文展示了在家庭聚集性环境下对乙型病毒性肝炎传播特征进行研究所得出的结果。已发现感染乙型病毒性肝炎的儿童每1000次接触会传染4至5人，而成年人每1000次接触传染人数不超过1人。该研究结果得出结论，认为乙肝患者作为传染源具有潜在危险性这一观点，取决于在评估其流行病学意义时所考虑的传染过程形式。乙肝病毒感染的潜伏病例在患病儿童的接触者中比在患病成人的接触者中更频繁出现，但该疾病的显性形式更常由接触患病成人而感染所致。
