Hepatitis E virus infection

N Kamar, J Izopet, N Pavio, R Aggarwal… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection can lead to acute and chronic hepatitis as well as to
extrahepatic manifestations such as neurological and renal disease; it is the most common …

Hepatitis E virus infection

N Kamar, HR Dalton, F Abravanel… - Clinical microbiology …, 2014 - journals.asm.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a worldwide disease. An improved understanding of the
natural history of HEV infection has been achieved within the last decade. Several reservoirs …

Hepatitis E virus in blood components: a prevalence and transmission study in southeast England

PE Hewitt, S Ijaz, SR Brailsford, R Brett, S Dicks… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 infections in the English
population (including blood donors) is unknown, but is probably widespread, and the virus …

Hepatitis e

N Kamar, R Bendall, F Legrand-Abravanel, NS ** countries in Asia and Africa, and is caused
by hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotypes 1 and 2, which are spread via the faecal–oral route by …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15

C Adlhoch, A Avellon, SA Baylis, AR Ciccaglione… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is endemic in EU/EEA countries, but the
understanding of the burden of the infection in humans is inconsistent as the disease is not …

Hepatitis E: an emerging global disease–from discovery towards control and cure

MS Khuroo, MS Khuroo - Journal of viral hepatitis, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis E is a systemic disease affecting the liver predominantly and caused by infection
with the hepatitis E virus (HEV). HEV has marked genetic heterogeneity and is known to …

Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) and detection of HEV RNA with a transcription‐mediated amplification assay in blood donors from C atalonia (S pain)

S Sauleda, E Ong, M Bes, A Janssen, R Cory… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging threat to the safety of blood transfusion.
The aim of this study was to determine HEV immunoglobulin (Ig) G and RNA prevalence in …

Novel approach for detection of hepatitis E virus infection in German blood donors

T Vollmer, J Diekmann, R Johne… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - journals.asm.org
The risk of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections by contaminated blood
products remains unknown. In the present study, we evaluated and compared different …