Three cases of hepatitis E after eating deer meat or wild boar liver in West Shizuoka, Japan

Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 418-424

  Kawamura, Kinya ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshimasa ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^b   Souda, Kenichi ^a   Sumiyoshi, Shinichi ^a   Kawata, Kazuhito ^a   Takahashi, Yurimi ^a   Makino, Satsuki ^a   Noritake, Hidenao ^a   Nakamura, Hirotoshi ^a   Abe, Natsuki ^b   Arai, Masahiro ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Hepatitis E; HEV

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; DEER; EATING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; INFUSION; JAPAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LIVER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RAW MEAT; REST; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILD BOAR;

EID: 77956534673     PISSN: 04514203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2957/kanzo.51.418     Document Type: Article

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