A case of acute hepatitis E developed in a housewife who had cooked and eaten wild boar meat a month before

Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 459-464

  Inoue, Gaku ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^b   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^c   Abe, Natsumi ^c   Oka, Kiyohito ^a   Nunoi, Hiroaki ^a   Ueda, Akihisa ^a,b   Shimase, Kouichi ^d   Hiasa, Yoichi ^b   Horiike, Norio ^b   Mishiro, Shunji ^c   Onji, Morikazu ^b  

^a Uwajima Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Shinagawa ku

^d Shimase Clinic

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COOKING; EATING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD BOAR;

EID: 33947125752     PISSN: 04514203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2957/kanzo.47.459     Document Type: Article

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