What factors determine the severity of hepatitis A-related acute liver failure?

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ajmera, V ^a   Xia, G ^b   Vaughan, G ^b   Forbi, J C ^b   Ganova Raeva, L M ^b   Khudyakov, Y ^b   Opio, C K ^a   Taylor, R ^c   Restrepo, R ^d   Munoz, S ^d   Fontana, R J ^c   Lee, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute liver failure; epidemiology; genome sequencing; hepatitis A

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEART ARREST; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 79959228061     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: 13652893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2893.2010.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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