An acute hepatitis case domestically infected with a hepatit E virus whose nucleotide sequence showed a high similarity to that from a domestic swine in Japan

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 454-458

  Yajima, Yoshiaki ^b   Takahashi, Nobutaka ^b   Yamagishi, Hatsushi ^b   Kodama, Ai ^b   Miyazaki, Atsushi ^b   Sugiyama, Koichi ^b   Eda, Yoshiki ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b  

^a SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SWINE; VIRUS GENOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0345269109     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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