Analysis of the full-length genome of genotype 4 hepatitis E virus isolates from patients with fulminant or acute self-limited hepatitis E

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 476-484

  Inoue, Jun ^a,b   Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Aikawa, Tatsuya ^c   Mizuo, Hitoshi ^d   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^e   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Aikawa Internal Medicine Hospital   (Japan)

^d Kin ikyo Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

^e IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Full length genome; Fulminant hepatitis; Genotype; Hepatitis E virus; Silent mutation

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTHROMBIN; RNA HELICASE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 33644787375     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20565     Document Type: Article

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