Four cases of hepatitis E after eating wild boar meats in Aichi, Japan

Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 465-473

  Shimizu, Yuko ^a   Yamada, Masahiko ^b   Tatematsu, Hidezumi ^a   Ishihara, Makoto ^a   Morita, Keiichi ^a   Ishiguro, Yoshihiro ^b   Katano, Yoshiaki ^c   Goto, Hidemi ^c   Takahashi, Masaharu ^d   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^d  

^a TOSEI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EATING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS HEPATITIS; WILD BOAR; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 33947115572     PISSN: 04514203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2957/kanzo.47.465     Document Type: Article

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