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First case report of an acute genotype 3 hepatitis E infected pregnant woman living in South-Eastern France.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 May 2012
Anty R, Ollier L, Péron J M, Nicand E, Cannavo I, Bongain A, Giordanengo V, Tran A
Abstract excerpt
In European countries, epidemiology of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is not well known. Although, seroprevalence of HEV Immunoglobulin G reached a few percent in European women, no acute hepatitis E during pregnancy has been described so far. Here, we report a case of an autochthonous HEV genotype 3 infection in a 41-years-old pregnant woman living in a non-endemic country. The acute hepatitis had a...
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