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Cross-species infections of cultured cells by hepatitis E virus and discovery of an infectious virus-host recombinant.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Feb 2011
Shukla Priyanka, Nguyen Hanh T, Torian Udana, Engle Ronald E, Faulk Kristina, Dalton Harry R, Bendall Richard P, Keane Frances E, Purcell Robert H, Emerson Suzanne U
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The RNA virus, hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most or second-most important cause of acute clinical hepatitis in adults throughout much of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In these regions it is an important cause of acute liver failure, especially in pregnant women who have a mortality rate of...
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