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Chronic Infection With Camelid Hepatitis E Virus in a Liver Transplant Recipient Who Regularly Consumes Camel Meat and Milk.
Gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2016
Lee Guan-Huei, Tan Boon-Huan, Teo Esmeralda Chi-Yuan, Lim Seng-Gee, Dan Yock-Young, Wee Aileen, Aw Pauline Poh Kim, Zhu Yuan, Hibberd Martin Lloyd, Tan Chee-Kiat, Purdy Michael A, Teo Chong-Gee
Abstract excerpt
There have been increasing reports of food-borne zoonotic transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3, which causes chronic infections in immunosuppressed patients. We performed phylogenetic analyses of the HEV sequence (partial and full-length) from 1 patient from the Middle East who underwent liver transplantation, and compared it with other orthohepevirus A sequences. We found the patient to be infected...
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