Evidence of hepatitis e virus exposure among seronegative healthy residents of an endemic area

Intervirology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 139-143

  Husain, Mohammad Mushtaq ^a   Srivastava, Ratika ^a   Akondy, Rama ^c   Aggarwal, Rakesh ^a   Jameel, Shahid ^b   Naik, Sita ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti HEV antibodies; Cellular responses; ELISPOT assay

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDIA; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UNITED STATES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 77957989087     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319840     Document Type: Article

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