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Hepatitis E virus as a newly identified cause of acute viral hepatitis during human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2008
Colson P, Dhiver C, Gérolami R
Abstract excerpt
The recent description of chronic hepatitis E in organ transplant recipients deserves increased awareness in the context of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in immunocompromised individuals. Reported here is what is apparently the first PCR-documented case of acute hepatitis E in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-infected patient. The CD4(+) T-lymphocyte count was 246/mm(3). The IgM anti-HEV antibody and...
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