RELATIONSHIP OF VIRUS DOSE TO INCUBATION TIME OF CLINICAL HEPATITIS AND TIME OF APPEARANCE OF HEPATITIS - ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN
RELATIONSHIP OF VIRUS DOSE TO INCUBATION TIME OF CLINICAL HEPATITIS AND TIME OF APPEARANCE OF HEPATITIS - ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN
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DOI:
10.1097/00000441-197201000-00005
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
MURRAY, R
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作者:
BARKER, LF;MURRAY, R
Samples from a frozen icterogenic plasma pool and frozen serum specimens from experiments on the transmission of serum hepatitis to volunteers conducted in 1951 to 1954 were tested for hepatitis B antigen by the microtitre complement-fixation test.Of the 37 subjects who received 1 ml sub-cutaneously of the undiluted plasma pool, 22 developed clinical hepatitis 45 to 92 days later, with an average incubation period of 77 days. The antigen was detected in 25 of the 37 recipients 42 to 82 days after inoculation, with a mean of 62 days.The incubation periods of clinical hepatitis in 2 cases which followed inoculation of a 10-3dilution of plasma were 92 and 130 days, whereas I individual developed clinical hepatitis 119 days after inoculation of 10-3dilution. 13 recipients of dilutions of plasma from 10-3to 10-7acquired the antigen in their serum after longer incubation periods; and only 3 of these subjects developed clinical hepatitis. Comparison by the median test showed the time of appearance of hepatitis B antigen after inoculation of the undiluted plasma to be significantly shorter than after inoculation with l(H to 10-7dilutions of the plasma pool.The effect of various treatments of the plasma pool was also studied. After ultraviolet irradiation of the plasma pool, both the incubation period of the clinical illness (82 to 134 days, average 100 days) and the time of appearance of the antigen in the serum (61 to 99 days, average 79 days) were significantly longer than the respective incubation times following the injection of the untreated icterogenic plasma. Several subjects developed clinical hepatitis and antigen after the inoculation of plasma treated in other ways. The incubation periods after the plasma had been heated for 2 and 4 hours at 60°C were scattered and only slightly increased compared with the incubation times following untreated plasma. There was a tendency for the incubation period to be increased when clinical hepatitis or serum antigen, or both, developed after inoculation of plasma which had been stored for 3 months at 22-25 °C or had been treated with β-propiolactone, but the number of cases was too small for statistical analysis.Antigen-B-positive hepatitis was induced in each of 5 subjects inoculated subcutaneously with 4 ml of γ-globulin which had been prepared from the icterogenic plasma pool byzinc fractionation. [It must be stressed that this batch of γ-globulin prepared by zinc precipitation isnotcomparable with current γ-globulin (immune serum globulin) which is prepared by ethanol fractionation. Indeed, γ-globulin prepared by ethanol fractionation of the icterogenic plasma pool did not transmit hepatitis.] The incubation times in the subjects givenzinc precipitatedγ-globulin were longer than in the recipients of the original undiluted plasma pool.The incubation times following the inoculation of stable plasma protein solution and of 100 ml of albumin given intravenously were also longer than the incubation times after inoculation of the original plasma pool. After this preparation of albumin had been heated for 10 hours at 60°C, no clinical hepatitis or hepatitis B antigen was noted in 15 recipients of 100 ml intravenous inoculations.The inoculation of 1 ml of serum from 2 proven hepatitis carriers induced clinical hepatitis accompanied by hepatitis B antigen after relatively short incubation periods: 39 to 60 days (average 38 days) with the serum of one of the carriers, and slightly longer incubation periods with the serum of the second carrier.Finally, a batch of human thrombin containing hepatitis B antigen induced clinical hepatitis in 6 subjects, with an average incubation period of 88 days. Hepatitis B antigen was detected in 4 of …