Discovery of hepatitis E virus - The untold story

JK Practitioner

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-294

  Khuroo, M S ^a  

^a NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

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Indexed keywords

BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GASTROENTERITIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HEPATITIS VIRUS NON A NON B; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INCIDENCE; INDIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER BIOPSY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NOTE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL STATUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; WAR; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 12344326844     PISSN: 09718834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (23)

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2. Khuroo MS, Saleem M, Teli MR, Sofi MA: Failure to Detect Chronic Liver Disease After Epidemic Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis. Lancet 1980;2:97-8 (letter)
3. Khuroo MS: Chronic Liver Disease After Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis. Lancet 1980;2:860-1 (letter). Evidence that Hepatitis E is an acute self-limiting disease.
4. Khuroo MS, Teli MR, Skidmore S, Sofi MA, Khuroo MI: Incidence and Soverity of Viral Hepatitis in Pregnancy. Am J Med. 1981;70:252-5. Evidence from prospective field study that Hepatitis E has high mortality in pregnant women.
5. Khuroo MS, Duermeyer W, Zargar SA, Ahanger MA, Shah MA: Acute Sporadic Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis in India. Am J Epidemiol 1983; 118:360-4. Evidence that acute sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis in developing countries had epidemiologic characteristics of epidemic non-A, non-B hepatitis (hepatitis E) and the disease was distinct from parenterally transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis (hepatitis C). In fact, 11 years later, we published data that 60% of acute sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis patients in Kashmir, India had acute markers of hepatitis E virus (Khuroo et al. J Med. Virol 1994: 43:281-6)
6. Khuroo MS, Zargar SA, Mahajan R, Javid G, Lal R: An Epidemic of Hepatitis D in the Foothills of Himalayas in South Kashmir. J Hepatol 1988;7:151-6. Hepatitis D was identified as an etiologic cause of an outbreak of hepatitis in an endemic area for hepatitis B in South Kashmir, India.
7. Khuroo MS, Mahajan R, Zargar SA, Javid G, Banday M: Epidemiology of Acute Viral Hepatitis in Northern India: Role of Hepatitis D Virus and Hepatitis Non-A, Non-B Superinfections. Ind J Gastroenterol 1989;8:119-22 (letter). Data point to the occurence of hepatitis D virus infection in the Indian subcontinent, However, non-A, non-B superinfection on hepatitis B carries was a more frequent occurence and usually presented as a benign form of acute virl hepatitis with eventual recovery.
8. Jameel S, Durgapal H, Habibullah CM, Khuroo MS, Panda SK: Enteric Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis - Epidemics, Animal transmission and Hepatitis E Virus Detection by the Polymerase Chain Reaction. J Med. Virol 1992;37:263-70. Transmission of hepatitis E virus to Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulata) and detection of HEV RNA by PCR in bile of infected animals and fecal samples of acute infected patients.
9. Khuroo MS, Jameel S, Kamili S, Moecklii R, Dar MY: Hepatitis E and Long Term Antibody Status. Lancet 1993;341:1355 (letter). Paired sera from patients (HE) and controls collected in November 1978 and November 1992 (14 years apart) were tested for antibiodies to hepatitis E virus. Data revealed persistence of antibodies over this period of time
10. Khuroo MS, Dar MY. Hepatitis E: Evidence for person to person transmission and inability of low dose immunoglobulin from Indian source to prevent it. Ind J Gastroenterol 1992; 11: 113-16.
11. Khuroo MS, Kamili S, Dar MY, Jameel S, Javid G, Yattoo GN, Khan BA, Dewani MS, Gul M: Hepatitis E: Seroepidemiology and Long Term Antibody. Ind J Gastroenterol 1993;12:A85. The overall prevalence of IgG anti-HEV was 4%. Kashmir has low sero-prevalance of anti HEV.
12. Khuroo MS, Dar MY: Subacute Hepatic Failure-Experience at Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar. Ind J Gastroenterol 1993; 12 (Suppl): 7-10.
13. Khuroo MS, Rustgi VK, Dawson GJ, Mushawer I, Yattoo GN, Kamili S, Khan BA: Spectrum of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in India. J Med. Virol 1994;43:281-6. Majority of patients in the acute non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis in India are caued by hepatitis E.
14. Khuroo MS, Kamili S, Jameel S: Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus Lancet 1995;345(8956): 1025-6. Hepatitis E is commonly transmitted from infected mothers to their babies with significant perinatal morbidity and mortality.
15. Khuroo MS. Acute liver failure in India. Hepatology 1997;26:244-6. Hepatitis E is a common cause of acute liver failure in endemic regions.
16. Khuroo MS: Viral Hepatitis: Agents and the Disease. The National Medical Journal of India 1990;3:180-6 (review). A review article published under "Every Dar Practice" gives detailed information on hepatitis viruses and the disease caused by them.
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19. Khuroo MS, Kamili S. Clinical course of Hepatitis E. Proceedings of IXth Biennial scientific meeting Asian Pacific Association for the study of the liver January 26-29, 1994. Kaula-lumpur, Malaysia p 409-20.
20. Khuroo MS, Kamili S, Yattoo GN: Hepatitis E: Current Perspectives. Postgraduate Doctor Middle East 1995; 18:58-65. Review on hepatitis E and hepatitis E virus.
21. Khuroo MS: Hepatitis E virus: Another Addition to the Existing Alphabet of Human - Hepatitis Viruses. Annals of Saudi Medicine 1996; 16:308-19. Review of hepatitis E virus.
22. Khuroo MS, Khuroo N: Hepatitis E: Global epidemiology with special reference to impact of the disease in India and the Southeast of Asia. In: Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease. Rizzetto M, Purcell RH, Gerin JL and Verine G (eds). Edizioni Mineva Medica. Turin 1997, p 601-8. Book chapter on hepatitis E epidemiology.
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