[The detection of the DNA of the hepatitis B virus in patients with probable non-A, non-B hepatitis]. / Detección del DNA del virus de la hepatitis B en pacientes con probable hepatitis noA-noB.

ABSTRACT

We found the presence of hepatitis B virus in 17 cases of non-A-non-B hepatitis using the DNA detection technique in serum of patients with a type of chronic hepatopathy. This finding supports the needs to determine this seric marker in all patients afflicted with chronic hepatopathy before the diagnosis of hepatitis B is excluded.