Prevalence of hepatitis e in liver transplant recipients in Greece

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 146, Issue 13, 2018, Pages 1619-1621

  Sinakos, E ^a   Gioula, G ^a   Liava, Ch ^a   Papa, A ^a   Papadopoulou, E ^a   Tsakni, E ^a   Fouzas, I ^a   Akriviadis, E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E; immunosuppression; prevalence; transplantation

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; VIRUS RNA; ORF2 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ORF3 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS E VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GREECE; HEALTH CENTER; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

FEMALE; GREECE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85049605168     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268818001887     Document Type: Article

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