Epidemiology of hepatitis e virus infection in Spain;Epidemiología de la infección por el virus de la hepatitis E en España

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 281-286

  Echevarría, José Manuel ^a   Fogeda, Marta ^a   Avellón, Ana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Epidemiology; Food safety; Hepatitis E; Viral zoonosis; virus

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; SEWAGE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHELLFISH POISONING; SPAIN; SWINE; AGE; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVESTOCK; PIG; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEX RATIO; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEWAGE; SHELLFISH; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEWAGE; SHELLFISH; SPAIN; SWINE;

EID: 84926256548     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2013.11.009     Document Type: Review

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