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Treatment of hepatitis E virus.
Current opinion in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2016
Dalton Harry R, Kamar Nassim
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Over the last 10 years, it has become apparent that hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a pathogen of global significance. In contrast to HEV in the developing world, HEV in developed countries is caused by HEV genotypes 3 and 4, which are enzoonotic with a porcine primary host and cause both acute and chronic infection. Chronic infection occurs in the immunosuppressed, including transplant recipients,...
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