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Hepatitis A - Management
Basis for recommendation
Recommendations and information about serological tests are based on expert opinion in the National standard method on acute infective hepatitis [HPA, 2010b], the draft National standard method on hepatitis from the Health Protection Agency [HPA, 2010a], guidelines from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV [BASHH, 2008], the textbook Principles and practice of infectious diseases [Curry and Chopra, 2009], a review by the World Health Organization into the global prevalence of hepatitis A virus infection and susceptibility [WHO, 2009], and the opinion of a CKS expert reviewer.
- The recommendation to state any suspicion of hepatitis A on the request form when ordering a hepatitis screen is based on expert opinion (in a personal communication from a local laboratory).
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