Seroepidemiology of hepatitis e virus infection in an Urban population in Zambia: Strong association with HIV and environmental enteropathy

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 209, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 652-657

  Jacobs, Choolwe ^a,b   Chiluba, Clarance ^a   Phiri, Cynthia ^a   Lisulo, Mpala Mwanza ^a   Chomba, Mumba ^a   Hill, Philip C ^b   Ijaz, Samreen ^c   Kelly, Paul ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental enteropathy; epidemiology; hepatitis E virus; HIV infection; seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HIV INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HIV ENTEROPATHY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84894265278     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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