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Hepatitis E virus: host tropism and zoonotic infection.
Current opinion in microbiology - 1 Feb 2021
Wang Bo, Meng Xiang-Jin
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the causative agent of hepatitis E, is an understudied but important pathogen. HEV typically causes self-limiting acute viral hepatitis, however chronic infection with neurological and other extrahepatic manifestations has increasingly become a significant clinical problem. The discovery of swine HEV from pigs and demonstration of its zoonotic potential led to the genetic identification...
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