Background There is still a dearth of knowledge on the burden of HEV infection in the global
population of pregnant women. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta …

Abstract Background Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) infection is a newly recognized serious threat
to global public health and Africa is suspected to be among the most severely affected …

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is one of the most common causes of acute hepatitis in tropical and
temperate climates. Tropical genotypes 1 and 2 are associated with food-borne and …

Hepatitis E is an emerging endemic disease found across the African continent, but there
are clear differences in epidemiology between North Africa and countries south of the …

Hepatitis E virus is a positive strand RNA virus with three open reading frames which is
transmitted predominantly through the fecal contamination of water and food. It is the most …

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 …

Abstract During 4 months (November 2010–March 2011) of an outbreak of hepatitis E virus
(HEV), 39 pregnant women presented at Port Sudan Hospital, Sudan, with various …

Space–time clustering of people who fall acutely ill with jaundice, then slip into coma and
death, is an alarming phenomenon, more markedly so when the victims are mostly or …

Background Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is highly endemic in several African countries with high
mortality rate among pregnant women. The prevalence of antibodies to HEV in Ethiopian …

Background Chronic hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections have recently been described in HIV-
infected patients. Only few data are available for sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV and HEV …