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Maria Silva Hepatitis E is a rising cause of acute hepatitis in developed nations. Most cases result in a mild and spontaneously cleared disease. Severe infections are characteristic of patients with previously e...
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Heli Harvala HEV and Blood Donation
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections can have severe, even fatal implications for immunocompromised blood and platelet recipients. In England, all blood donations are screened ...
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Peter Asaga Mac HEV infection may be life-threatening in pregnant women and has been linked with 20–30% mortality, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. HEV infection leads to elevated levels of preterm l...
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Siddharth Sridhar Convenient small animal models of chronic hepatitis E are necessary for investigating the course of HEV infection in immunocompromised persons. Currently available small animal models for this purpose...
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Jose Debes The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emergent causative agent of acute hepatitis worldwide, transmitted mainly by the fecal-oral route, which can progress to chronicity in immunosuppressed patients. HEV ...
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Marina Meester Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is very common in pig farms throughout the world and pigs are an important source of human infections in industrialized countries, probably mainly by consumption of ...
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Laurence Cocquerel, Martin Ferrié, Maliki Ankavay HEV genome expresses three open reading frames (ORFs): ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3. ORF1 encodes the ORF1 non-structural polyprotein that is the viral replicase. ORF2 encodes the ORF2 viral capsid protein and...
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Abou Abdallah Malick DIOUARA Hepatitis E is geographically a very heterogeneously distributed disease, being present in both developed and developing countries. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) transmission is essentially by the fecal–o...
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Mohammad Khalid Parvez HEV has been recognized with eight genotypes (HEV1- HEV8), of which HEV1-HEV4 are infectious to humans. While HEV1 is waterborne infection causing self-limiting acute hepatitis E in general population...
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Robert Fontana Establishing a diagnosis of idiosyncratic drug induced liver injury (DILI) is challenging due to the need to exclude more common causes of acute liver injury such as viral hepatitis, pancreaticobiliar...
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EVENTS
2023-04-28
2nd International HEV Symposium The meeting will be held from April 28 to 29, 2023, in London. The 2-day meeting will feature talks and presentations given on the latest updates on HEV epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, laboratory research, and disease control.
More information: https://www.ivi.int/hev-symposium-2023/