Prevalence of hepatitis E virus infection in regular hemodialysis patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-197

  Kikuchi, Kan ^a   Yoshida, Takumi ^a   Kimata, Naoki ^a   Sato, Chifumi ^b   Akiba, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibody; Hemodialysis patient; Hepatitis E virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 33646258259     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2006.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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