Hepatitis E virus infection as a cause of graft hepatitis in liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-82

  Pischke, Sven ^a   Suneetha, Pothakamuri V ^a   Baechlein, Christine ^b   Barg Hock, Hannelore ^a   Heim, Albert ^a   Kamar, Nassim ^c   Schlue, Jerome ^a   Strassburg, Christian P ^a   Lehner, Frank ^a   Raupach, Regina ^a   Bremer, Birgit ^a   Magerstedt, Peter ^a   Cornberg, Markus ^a   Seehusen, Frauke ^b   Baumgaertner, Wolfgang ^b   Klempnauer, Juergen ^a   Izopet, Jacques ^d   Manns, Michael P ^a   Grummer, B ^b   Wedemeyer, Heiner ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^d CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT HEPATITIS; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SWINE; VIREMIA; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73949154835     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21958     Document Type: Article

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