Rabbit hepatitis E virus infections in humans, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1191-1193

  Abravanel, Florence ^a,b   Lhomme, Sébastien ^a,b   El Costa, Hicham ^a   Schvartz, Betoul ^c   Peron, Jean Marie ^b   Kamar, Nassim ^a,b   Izopet, Jacques ^a,b  

^a University of Toulouse III   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FRANCE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RABBIT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEPORIDAE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; RNA, VIRAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85021075542     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2307.170318     Document Type: Article

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