The recent outbreak of acute severe hepatitis in children of unknown origin - what is known so far

Eberhard Lurz; Dominic Lenz; Philip Bufler; Alexander Fichtner; Stephan Henning; Martin Jankofsky; Simone Kathemann; Michael Melter; Jun Oh; Eva Doreen Pfister; Ekkehard Sturm; Birgit Knoppke; Elke Lainka

doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2022.05.039

The recent outbreak of acute severe hepatitis in children of unknown origin - what is known so far

J Hepatol. 2022 Oct;77(4):1214-1215. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.05.039. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University Hospital, LMU Munich, Department of Pediatrics, Munich, Germany; Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany. Electronic address: Eberhard.Lurz@med.uni-muenchen.de.
² Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; University Hospital Heidelberg, Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; University Medicine Charité, Department of Pediatrics, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Pediatrics, Hamburg, Germany.
⁵ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; University Medicine Essen, University Children's Hospital, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Transplant Medicine, Essen, Germany.
⁶ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; University Hospital Regensburg, KUNO University Children's Hospital, Regensburg, Germany.
⁷ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; Hannover Medical School, Clinic for Pediatric Kidney, Liver, and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover, Germany.
⁸ Working Group Pediatric Liver Transplantation of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (GPGE), Germany; Eberhard Karls University Tubingen, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Children's Hospital, Tübingen, Germany.

PMID: 35714809
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.05.039

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Child
Disease Outbreaks*
Hepatitis Antibodies
Hepatitis*
Humans

Substances

Hepatitis Antibodies