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Molecular characterization of a hepatitis E virus isolate from Namibia.
Journal of biomedical science - 1 Jan 2000
He J, Binn L N, Tsarev S A, Hayes C G, Frean J A, Isaacson M, Innis B L
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes sporadic and epidemic acute viral hepatitis in many developing countries. In Africa, hepatitis E has been documented by virus detection (reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, RT-PCR) in Egypt, Chad, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Cases of presumptive hepatitis E also have been documented by detection of antibody to HEV in the Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and...
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