British researchers reported a breakthrough Monday in mysterious hepatitis cases affecting young children, finding the serious liver condition was linked to co-infection of two common viruses, but not the coronavirus.
, including 46 that required transplants and 22 deaths from the illness dating back to last October.
But in two new studies carried out independently and simultaneously in Scotland and London, scientists found anotherAAV2 is not normally known to cause disease and cannot replicate itself without another"helper" virus being present. "The presence of the AAV2 virus is associated with unexplained hepatitis in children," said infectious disease professor Emma Thomson of the University of Glasgow, who led the Scottish paper, in a statement.or was rather a biomarker for underlying adenovirus infection that is harder to detect but was the main pathogen.
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