Hepatitis E virus infection in Brazil: Results of laboratory-based surveillance from 1998 to 2013

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 468-470

  Passos Castilho, Ana Maria ^a   de Sena, Anne ^a,b   Reinaldo, Mônica Renata ^a,b   Granato, Celso Francisco Hernandes ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fleury   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hepatitis E virus; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940375196     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0036-2015     Document Type: Article

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