Prevalence of hepatitis e virus infection in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients - A single-center experience

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 742-747

  Hoerning, André ^a   Hegen, Bianca ^a   Wingen, Anne Margret ^a   Cetiner, Metin ^a   Lainka, Elke ^a   Kathemann, Simone ^a   Fiedler, Melanie ^b   Timm, Jörg ^b   Wenzel, Jürgen J ^c   Hoyer, Peter F ^a   Gerner, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

hepatitis E Virus; liver transplantation; renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFANT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866741989     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2012.01740.x     Document Type: Article

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