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First case report of an acute hepatitis E subgenotype 3c infection during pregnancy in Germany.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2014
Tabatabai J, Wenzel J J, Soboletzki M, Flux C, Navid M Heidary, Schnitzler P
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E is usually a self-limiting disease and an important cause of acute hepatitis in endemic countries in Asia and Africa. However, the mortality rate for pregnant women infected with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in this area is about 25%. In Germany, sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E infections have been described and the number of autochthonous infections is increasing. Here we report an autochthonous HEV...
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