Objective To study the etiologic distribution of viral hepatitis and to investigate diagnosis and communicable disease legal report by local physicians in Beijing suburb.
Methods 161 patients diagnosed as acute viral hepatitis by local physicians in the year 2000 were surveyed, including serologic markers of viral hepatitis by ELISA, epidemiolo gical enquiry with a standard questionnaire.For those patients who could not be indentified the etiology by ELISA, HBV DNA and HCV DNA were detected.Further more, the data of the epiemiological case reporting system in the region were collected.
Results the proportion of acute hepatitis A, B, C, E, reactivation of chronic HB and uncertain type were 7.5%(12/161), 19.3%(31/161), 5.6%(9/161), 13.0%(21/161), 44.1%(71/161)and 10.6%(17/161), respectively.42.86%(69/161)cases were identified etiology by local physicians and 30.44%(21/69)of them were correct.39.1%(63/161)cases were reported legally.
Conclusion Hepatit is B is the most common hepatitis in the region.the ability of viral hepatitis diagnosisylocal physicians is poor and the proportion of hepatitis cases legal report is low.
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