Evidence of hepatitis E virus transmission by renal graft

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pourbaix, Annabelle ^a   Ouali, Nacera ^a   Soussan, Patrick ^a   Roque Afonso, Anne Marie ^b   Péraldi, Marie Noelle ^c   Rondeau, Eric ^a   Peltier, Julie ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

chronic hepatitis E; renal graft; transmission; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CYTOLYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAFT INFECTION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORGAN DONOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; BLOOD; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ALLOGRAFTS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 85013651807     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12624     Document Type: Article

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