Hepatitis E virus infection in a liver transplant recipient: Delayed diagnosis due to variable performance of serologic assays

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yoo, N ^a   Bernstein, J ^a   Caldwell, C ^a   Dong, C ^b   Drobeniuc, J ^b   Kamili, S ^b   Landry, M L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hepatitis E virus; Liver transplant; PCR; Viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEATH; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; UROSEPSIS; VIREMIA;

EID: 84880769763     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12096     Document Type: Letter

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