Hidden danger: The raw facts about hepatitis e virus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 819-821

  Purcell, Robert H ^a   Emerson, Suzanne U ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AFRICA; ASIA; CENTRAL AFRICA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MEXICO; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS VIABILITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEAT PRODUCTS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE;

EID: 77955928829     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655900     Document Type: Note

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