@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-65-5-1005, author = "Sreenivasan, M. A. and Arankalle, V. A. and Sehgal, A. and Pavri, K. M.", title = "Non-A, Non-B Epidemic Hepatitis: Visualization of Virus-like Particles in the Stool by Immune Electron Microscopy", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "1984", volume = "65", number = "5", pages = "1005-1007", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-65-5-1005", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-65-5-1005", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "non-A", keywords = "non-B", keywords = "electron microscopy", keywords = "hepatitis", abstract = "SUMMARY Acute-phase stool samples collected from hepatitis cases during outbreaks of water-borne epidemic hepatitis were examined by immune electron microscopy (IEM). Spherical virus-like particles (27nm in diameter) were visualized in the stool of a hepatitis patient with serological evidence of non-A, non-B (NANB) hepatitis. The IEM demonstrated serological specificity of the antigen with the patient’s own convalescent serum as well as a known pool of NANB hepatitis convalescent sera. It is suggested that these virus-like particles may be the aetiological agent of faeco-orally transmitted NANB epidemic hepatitis in India.", }