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Acute hepatitis due to hepatitis E virus genotype 1 as an imported infectious disease in Japan.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2010
Miyahara Koji, Miyake Yasuhiro, Yasunaka Tetsuya, Ikeda Fusao, Takaki Akinobu, Iwasaki Yoshiaki, Kobashi Haruhiko, Kang Jong-Hon, Takahashi Kazuaki, Arai Masahiro, Yamamoto Kazuhide
Abstract excerpt
An 18-year-old Nepalese man was admitted due to general malaise and anorexia a month after coming to Japan. Laboratory tests showed elevation of transaminase and positivity for IgM anti-HEV antibody. Serum HEV RNA was detected by RT-PCR amplifications. An HEV genome phylogenetic tree, constructed using an 821-nucleotide sequence in the open reading frame 1, indicated that the genotype was 1. HEV genotype 1 is...
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