Investigating an outbreak of acute viral hepatitis caused by hepatitis E virus variants in Karachi, South Pakistan

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 622-629

  Khan, Anis ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Kurbanov, Fuat ^a   Elkady, Abeer ^a   Abbas, Zaigham ^b   Azam, Zahid ^c   Subhan, Amna ^c   Razza, Sajjad ^c   Hamid, Saeed ^c   Jafri, Wasim ^c   Shih, James ^d   Xia, Ningshao ^d   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^e   Mishiro, Shunji ^e   Mizokami, Masashi ^f  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Sind Institute of Urology and Transplantation   (Pakistan)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^f 1 7 1 Kohnodai   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute viral hepatitis outbreak; Bayesian coalescent analysis; HEV variants; Molecular clock; Phylogeny; Serological diagnosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY; SERODIAGNOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 79951528582     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22036     Document Type: Article

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