Does chronic hepatitis E virus infection exist in immunocompetent patients?

Hepatology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 427-427

  Kamar, Nassim ^a,c   Izopet, Jacques ^b  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HUMANS;

EID: 84903150752     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26927     Document Type: Letter

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