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Public health

Published by Jahir Orozco

Infections caused by Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) have become more frequent in the last ten years, being HEV from serotype 3 the most prevalent virus identified in humans, pigs, and environmental samples i...


Virology

Published by Toni Lusie Meister, Eike Steinmann

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has increasing prevalence worldwide with over three million infections every year. HEV is the causative agent of hepatitis E in humans and is the leading cause of enterically t...


Virology

Published by Bo Wang, Xiang-Jin Meng

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pregnant women has a high incidence of developing fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) with significant mortality. Multiple amino acid changes in the genome of HEV-1 ar...


Public health

Published by Mathias Schemmerer

Orthohepevirus A, also known as the hepatitis E virus (HEV), is endemic in Europe. HEV is divided into eight genotypes (HEV-1 to -8). Zoonotic HEV-3 is predominant in Europe and can further be differe...


Animal reservoir

Published by Javier Caballero Gómez, Antonio Rivero, Antonio Rivero-Juarez

The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is still the most endangered felid species in the world, although different projects, including EU LIFE-Nature projects, have been launched since 2000s to save the Ibe...


Experimental model

Published by Siddharth Sridhar

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is challenging to cultivate in vitro. Replication is often weak and highly strain dependent. Also, viruses released from cells in culture are cloaked in cell-derived envelopes ...


Experimental model

Published by chunnan liang

At least 20 million hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections occur annually. Hepatitis E is generally acute and self-limiting. However, chronic hepatitis E has gained more attention worldwide and has been r...


Antiviral agent

Published by Mara Klöhn, Eike Steinmann

Every year, an estimated 20 million people become infected with HEV, resulting in 3.3 million acute cases and approximately 70,000 deaths annually, making HEV the leading cause for acute viral hepatit...


Diagnostics

Published by Jian Wu, Ze Xiang

Although hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is usually asymptomatic and results in a self-limited disease with low mortality, some patients, particularly pregnant women, the elderly, and people with pr...


Virus-host interaction

Published by Debin Tian, Xiang-Jin Meng

HEV infection is associated with nerve root and plexus sequelae, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and neuralgic amyotrophy, in a significant proportion of HEV-infected individuals worldwide. Additiona...


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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/