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High clinical manifestation rate in an imported outbreak of hepatitis E genotype 1 infection in a German group of travellers returning from India.
Annals of hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Pischke Sven, Schulze-Zur-Wiesch Julian, Lütgehetmann Marc, Kreuels Benno, Lueth Stefan, Kapaun Petra, Benten Daniel, Schmiedel Stefan, Sterneck Martina, Lohse Ansgar W, Polywka Susanne
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Background. There are only few reports about travel-associated, imported tropical hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 1 infections within Western travellers. We describe the clinical course of a single outbreak of hepatitis E in a German travellers group returning from India and compare the results of two commercial HEV-seroassays. MATERIAL AND METHODS: After identifying hepatitis E in an index patient returning...
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