Molecular detection and sequence analysis of hepatitis E virus in patients with viral hepatitis from North India

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-117

  Kumar, Subrat ^a   Pujhari, Sujit Kumar ^b   Chawla, Yogesh Kumar ^b   Chakraborti, Anuradha ^b   Ratho, Radha Kanta ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acute viral hepatitis; Fulminant hepatic failure; Hepatitis E virus; Open reading frame; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84860403654     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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