Hepatitis E virus infection

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kamar, Nassim ^a   Izopet, Jacques ^a   Pavio, Nicole ^b   Aggarwal, Rakesh ^c   Labrique, Alain ^d   Wedemeyer, Heiner ^e   Dalton, Harry R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b ANSES   (France)

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

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS E VACCINE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BLOOD; CHINA; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SCREENING; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; BLOOD DONOR; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECT; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; RISK FACTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BLOOD DONORS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85034838890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.86     Document Type: Review

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