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Acute hepatitis E in India appears to be caused exclusively by genotype 1 hepatitis E virus.
Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2018
Gupta Neha, Sarangi Aditya N, Dadhich Sunil, Dixit V K, Chetri Kamal, Goel Amit, Aggarwal Rakesh
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BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E is caused by infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV), which has four well-known genotypes. Genotypes 1 and 2 HEV have been reported from human cases in areas where the disease is highly endemic. By contrast, genotypes 3 and 4 HEV, which primarily infect several animal species worldwide, have been reported mainly from sporadic human cases in non-endemic areas such as Japan and high-income...
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