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First report of an autochthonous hepatitis E virus genotype 3 infection in a 5 month old female child in Germany.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Feb 2011
Krüttgen A, Scheithauer S, Häusler M, Kleines M
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is well-known to cause endemic outbreaks of hepatitis in tropical countries, mostly caused by HEV genotypes 1 or 2 and transmitted from humans to humans via the fecal-oral route. In contrast, HEV genotypes 3 or 4 are commonly encountered as sporadic cases in a non-endemic setting; these autochthonous cases are transmitted from animals to humans and commonly affect elderly male subjects. We...
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