Diagnosis of HEV infection by serological and real-time PCR assays: A study on acute non-A-C hepatitis collected from 2004 to 2010 in Italy

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Candido, Angela ^a   Taffon, Stefania ^a   Chionne, Paola ^a   Pisani, Giulio ^a   Madonna, Elisabetta ^a   Dettori, Stefano ^a   Hamza, Abir ^a,b   Valdarchi, Catia ^a   Bruni, Roberto ^a   Ciccaglione, Anna Rita ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84862179794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-297     Document Type: Review

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