Abstract
Summary
1. A strain of infectious hepatitis virus inoculated par enter ally into 8 human volunteers was recovered from pools of serum and feces obtained from these same subjects during the acute-phase of their illness. These materials produced infectious hepatitis in 5 out of 6 healthy, human volunteers on reinoculation.
2. This recovery of virus from the stool of patients with infectious hepatitis induced by parenteral inoculation constitutes an apparent difference between this condition and homologous serum jaundice in which the etiologic agent has not been recovered from the stool up to the present time.
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