Characteristics of 20 patients with autochthonous acute hepatitis e in hokkaido, Japan: First report of bilateral facial palsy following the infection with genotype 4 hepatitis E virus

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 236, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 263-271

  Yazaki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sugawara, Kenji ^b   Honda, Mitsunori ^a   Ohnishi, Hiroshi ^c   Nagashima, Shigeo ^c   Takahashi, Masaharu ^c   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^c  

^a Kobayashi Hospital   (Japan)

^b Kitami Shokaki Clinic   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral facial palsy; Extrahepatic manifestation; Full genome; Genotype 4; Hepatitis E virus

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BILIRUBIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84938150161     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.236.263     Document Type: Article

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