Advances in hepatitis E – I: virology, pathogenesis and diagnosis

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1053-1063

  Aggarwal, Rakesh ^a   Goel, Amit ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

animal models; diagnosis; disease models; genetic epidemiology; Hepatitis E virus; serology; viral replication; virology

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; HEPATITIS E ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TAXONOMY; TH1 TH2 BALANCE; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEROLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84984600760     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: 17474132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17474124.2016.1185362     Document Type: Review

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