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Hepatitis E Virus: Time to Change the Textbooks.
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2000
Dalton Harry R, Webb Glynn W, Norton Ben C, Woolson Kathy L
Abstract excerpt
Until recently, hepatitis E virus (HEV) was thought not to occur in developed countries. It is now clear that locally acquired HEV is common in such settings. HEV infection acquired in these areas differs from that in developing countries in a number of important aspects: it is caused by genotype 3 (and 4 in China and Japan), it mainly affects middle-aged/elderly males and it is zoonotic with a porcine primary...
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