Hepatitis E virus infection, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Kiribati, 2003-2005

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1057-1058

  Halliday, John S ^a,b   Abby Harrison, G L ^c   Brown, Anthony ^a   Hunter, Jeremy G ^d   Bendall, Richard ^d   Penny, David ^e   Toatu, Tebuka ^f   Abdad, Mohammad Y ^g   Klenerman, Paul ^a   Barnes, Eleanor ^a   Dalton, Harry R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^f Disease Surveillance Control and Research Unit   (Fiji)

^g PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIJI; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; KIRIBATI; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSIS; BLOOD; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIJI; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICRONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84900991910     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.130562     Document Type: Letter

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