Are HIV-infected patients a high-risk population for hepatitis e virus infection in Spain?;¿son los pacientes VIH positivos un grupo de riesgo para la infección por virus de la hepatitis E en España?

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 582-583

  Mateos Lindemann, Maria Luisa ^a   Gonzalez Galdámez, Ana ^a   Bordallo Cardona, Maria ^a   Pérez Gracia, Maria Teresa ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868205800     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.03.010     Document Type: Letter

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