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Acute autochthonous hepatitis E in western patients with underlying chronic liver disease: A role for ribavirin?

1 Feb 2011

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We read with interest the recent editorial in the Journal of Hepatology entitled “Hepatitis E: Water, water everywhere – Now a Global Disease” [1]. The authors state that in industrialized nations, acute liver failure and acute-on-chronic liver failure due to autochthonous acute hepatitis E genotype 3 (HEV3) infection have not yet been documented. This statement is inaccurate. A series of seven patients with...

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PMID: 21281681
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.01.009

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