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An <scp>ORF</scp>1‐rearranged hepatitis <scp>E</scp> virus derived from a chronically infected patient efficiently replicates in cell culture
13 Aug 2013
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Hepatitis E is an increasingly reported disease in industrialized countries. Studies on the replication cycle of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are hampered due to the lack of efficient and robust cell culture systems for this virus. We describe the successful isolation of HEV derived from a chronically infected kidney transplant patient held under immunosuppressive therapy. Inoculation of serum sample 47832 onto the...
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