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An update on the hepatitis E virus.
Current gastroenterology reports - 1 Feb 2013
Sclair Seth N, Schiff Eugene R
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There have been recent key advances in the understanding of hepatitis E virus infection. Since the early 1980s, when the virus was first discovered, hepatitis E has been described as a disease that is endemic only in the African and Asian subcontinents, a disease that is transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and a disease that causes an acute illness that typically resolves, with the exception of the third...
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