Sporadic acute hepatitis E occurred constantly during the last decade in northeast Japan

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-337

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nagasaki, Futoshi ^b   Akahane, Takehiro ^c   Fukushima, Koji ^a   Kogure, Takayuki ^a   Kondo, Yasuteru ^a   Kakazu, Eiji ^a   Tamai, Keiichi ^a   Kido, Osamu ^a   Nakagome, Yu ^a   Ninomiya, Masashi ^a   Obara, Noriyuki ^a   Wakui, Yuta ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^d   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^d   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; HEV; Miyagi; Phylogenetic analysis; Tohoku

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65049084346     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-009-0012-3     Document Type: Article

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