Fulminant hepatitis E in Japan [7]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 1456-

  Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a   Aikawa, Tatsuya ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION;

FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0037206367     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200210313471819     Document Type: Letter

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