Hepatitis E virus - An update

Liver

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-176

  Harrison, Tim J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Free Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enzyme immunoassays; Genetic variation; Hepatitis E; Non A; Non B; Pregnancy; RT PCR; Vaccines; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS VACCINE; VIRUS RNA;

DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORTALITY; OPEN READING FRAME; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SANITATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SWINE; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032979762     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.1999.tb00031.x     Document Type: Review

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