Chronic hepatitis e virus infection in a pediatric female liver transplant recipient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4425-4427

  Passos Castilho, Ana Maria ^a   Porta, Gilda ^b   Miura, Irene K ^b   Pugliese, Renata P S ^b   Danesi, Vera L B ^b   Porta, Adriana ^b   Guimarães, Teresa ^b   Seda, João ^b   Antunes, Eduardo ^b   Granato, Celso F H ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^c Fleury   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS RNA; AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 3B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIRUS LOAD; BLOOD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIROLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LATIN AMERICA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSAMINASES; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS;

EID: 84910137082     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02286-14     Document Type: Article

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