Hepatitis E in liver biopsies from patients with acute hepatitis of clinically unexplained origin

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 DEC, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Drebber, Uta ^a   Odenthal, Margarete ^a   Aberle, Stephan W ^b   Winkel, Nadine ^a   Wedemeyer, Inga ^a   Hemberger, Jutta ^a   Holzmann, Heidemarie ^b   Dienes, Hans Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; FFPE material; HEV; HEV genotype 3; Immune response

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE HEPATITIS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER NECROSIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84891684863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00351     Document Type: Article

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