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[Hepatitis E: molecular virology, epidemiology and pathogenesis].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Dec 2012
Rodríguez-Frias Francisco, Jardi Rosendo, Buti María
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E represents a significant proportion of enteric transmitted liver diseases and poses a major public health problem, mainly associated with epidemics due to contamination of water supplies, especially in developing countries. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is responsible for self-limiting acute liver oral-faecal infections. In industrialised countries, acute hepatitis E is sporadic, detected in travellers from...
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