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Hepatitis E and its emergence in non-endemic areas.
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift - 30 Aug 2002
Worm Harald C, Schlauder George G, Brandstätter Gerald
Abstract excerpt
In areas with a tropical or subtropical climate and poor sanitary conditions, hepatitis E is the major cause of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis, and is responsible for both waterborne outbreaks of variable magnitude and sporadic cases of acute hepatitis. The causative agent is the hepatitis E virus (HEV), a non-enveloped, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA molecule of approximately 7.2 kb in...
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