Clinical case of viral hepatitis A in a native of the Republic of Cameroon

The article describes a case of viral hepatitis A in a military school cadet who arrived in the Amur region from the Republic of Cameroon, a hyperendemic country for various infectious diseases. The modern epidemiological characteristics of enteral viral hepatitis are reflected, and the features of the clinical course of viral hepatitis A in a representative of the Negroid race are outlined. This observation indicates that persons arriving from endemic countries do not exclude the risk of infection with viral infections with a fecal-oral transmission mechanism.

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