Hepatitis E: an emerging infection in developed countries

HR Dalton, R Bendall, S Ijaz, M Banks - The Lancet infectious …, 2008 - thelancet.com
Hepatitis E is endemic in many developing countries where it causes substantial morbidity.
In industrialised countries, it is considered rare, and largely confined to travellers returning …

Hepatitis E virus

SK Panda, D Thakral, S Rehman - Reviews in medical virology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the aetiological agent of non‐HAV enterically transmitted hepatitis.
It is the major cause of sporadic as well as epidemic hepatitis, which is no longer confined to …

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in patients with cirrhosis is associated with rapid decompensation and death

SK Acharya, PK Sharma, R Singh, SK Mohanty… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND/AIMS: India is hyper-endemic for hepatitis E virus (HEV). HEV infection in
cirrhosis may cause high mortality. Prospective study evaluating HEV infection in cirrhotics is …

Autochthonous hepatitis E in Southwest England: natural history, complications and seasonal variation, and hepatitis E virus IgG seroprevalence in blood donors, the …

HR Dalton, W Stableforth, P Thurairajah… - European journal of …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Aims To report the natural history of autochthonous hepatitis E and hepatitis E virus (HEV)
IgG seroprevalence in Southwest England. Methods Patients with unexplained hepatitis …

Serological diagnostics of hepatitis E virus infection

Y Khudyakov, S Kamili - Virus research, 2011 - Elsevier
Development of accurate diagnostic assays for the detection of serological markers of
hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection remains challenging. In the course of nearly 20 years after …

Laboratory challenges in the diagnosis of hepatitis E virus

DW Al-Sadeq, AF Majdalawieh… - Journal of Medical …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an RNA virus that is an important cause of both acute and chronic
hepatitis worldwide. To date, there are eight HEV genotypes that can infect mammals. HEV …

Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in Canadian swine herds and identification of a novel variant of swine hepatitis E virus

D Yoo, P Willson, Y Pei, MA Hayes… - Clinical Diagnostic …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Swine hepatitis E virus is a newly identified potentially zoonotic virus from pigs of particular
concern for possible direct transmission to a human xenotransplant recipient by organ …

Identification of swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) and prevalence of anti-HEV antibodies in swine and human populations in Korea

IS Choi, HJ Kwon, NR Shin, HS Yoo - Journal of Clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
The swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered to be a new zoonotic agent due to its close
genomic resemblance to the human HEV and its ability to infect nonhuman primates …

Detection of HEV antigen as a novel marker for the diagnosis of hepatitis E

F Zhang, X Li, Z Li, TJ Harrison, H Chong… - Journal of medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) may be diagnosed by the presence of HEV RNA or anti‐
HEV antibodies. An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was developed for the detection of antigen …

Epidemiology and associated risk factors of hepatitis e virus infection in plateau state, Nigeria

SA Junaid, SE Agina… - Virology: research and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
A cross-sectional study in Nigeria was undertaken to determine the epidemiology,
seroprevalence, and associated risk factors, of hepatitis E virus (HEV). A total of 462 …