Locally acquired hepatitis E in the Netherlands: Associated with the consumption of raw pig meat?

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 454-456

  Melenhorst, Wynand B W H ^a   Gu, Youlan L ^a   Jaspers, Wim J M ^a   Verhage, Albert H ^a  

^a St Lucas Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIVER ENZYME; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HEPATITIS E; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MEAT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NETHERLANDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; THORAX PAIN; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 34248205711     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540601087590     Document Type: Article

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