Hepatitis E virus seroprevalence and chronic infections in patients with HIV, Switzerland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1074-1078

  Kenfak Foguena, Alain ^a   Schöni Affolter, Franziska ^b   Bürgisser, Philippe ^a   Witteck, Andrea ^c   Darling, Katharine E A ^a   Kovari, Helen ^d   Kaiser, Laurent ^e   Evison, John Marc ^f   Elzi, Luigia ^g   de la Fuente, Vanina Gurtner ^h   Jost, Josef ⁱ   Moradpour, Darius ^a   Abravanel, Florence ^j   Izopet, Jacques ^j   Cavassini, Matthias ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Data Center of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study   (Switzerland)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h Ospedale Civico Lugano   (Switzerland)

ⁱ KLINIK IM PARK   (Switzerland)

^j TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE;

EID: 79957630852     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid/1706.101067     Document Type: Article

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