Hepatitis E Virus
Genetic Variability and the Classification of Hepatitis E Virus
... of hepatitis E virus (HEV) is currently in tran- ...mitted virus that causes acute self-limiting hepatitis in large epi- demics and sporadic cases, the genome was characterized as ...
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Identification of Novel Human Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Isolates and Determination of the Seroprevalence of HEV in Korea
... Hepatitis E virus (HEV) was originally identified as the causative agent of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis. Recently, HEV isolates were subsequently identified in humans and ...
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Pathogenesis of Hepatitis E Virus and Hepatitis C Virus in Chimpanzees: Similarities and Differences
... viral hepatitis types A through E in ...viruses, hepatitis E virus (HEV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), were compared in multiple experimentally infected ...
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Seroepidemiology of Hepatitis E Virus in Hemodialysis Patients in Gorgan-Iran
... 6. Tabarraei A, Moradi A, Rodgari D, Javid N, Bakhshandeh Nosrat S. Anti-Hepatitis E Virus seroprevalence in pregnant women, in Gorgan, Iran, North East of Caspian Sea. International Conference on ...
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Quantitative risk assessment of hepatitis E virus: modelling the occurrence of viraemic pigs and the presence of the virus in organs of food safety interest
... Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a zoonotic pathogen with consumption of pork and derived products identified in different countries as a risk factor for human exposure to ...of virus transmission ...
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Hepatitis E Virus Quasispecies and the Outcome of Acute Hepatitis E in Solid-Organ Transplant Patients
... Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are responsible for chronic hepatitis in immunocompromised patients, and this can evolve to ...acute hepatitis in immunocompro- mised patients remains ...
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Activities of Thrombin and Factor Xa Are Essential for Replication of Hepatitis E Virus and Are Possibly Implicated in ORF1 Polyprotein Processing
... ORF1 encodes nonstructural proteins (nsPs). It is the largest ORF and has 5,079 bases. ORF2 is 1,980 nucleotides long and codes for a major structural protein. ORF3 is the smallest ORF, consisting of only 345 ...
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Genotype-Specific Evolution of Hepatitis E Virus
... We have demonstrated differences in the evolution of hepatitis E virus (HEV) between the three open reading frames and have quantified the differences in evolu- tionary patterns between genotypes. ...
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Identity of a Novel Swine Hepatitis E Virus in Taiwan Forming a Monophyletic Group with Taiwan Isolates of Human Hepatitis E Virus
... Recently, we found that more than 10% of the cases of acute non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis in Taiwan were caused by a novel strain of hepatitis E virus (HEV). Since none of these patients had a ...
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A new hepatitis E virus genotype 2 strain identified from an outbreak in Nigeria, 2017
... Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the prototype of the family Hepeviridae and a common causative agent of acute viral hepatitis. HEV is a small, (non)enveloped spherical particle of about 34 nm in ...
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Detection of Hepatitis E Virus-Specific Immunoglobulin A in Patients Infected with Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 1 or 3
... acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) in patients is primarily based on anti-HEV immunoglobulin M (IgM) ...acute hepatitis patients who were negative for ...
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus differs in Dutch and first generation migrant populations in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: a cross sectional study
... 1980, hepatitis E virus (HEV) is recognized as a causative agent of acute viral inflammation of the human liver ...with hepatitis A virus (HAV), and both are transmitted by the ...
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Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Antibodies in Canadian Swine Herds and Identification of a Novel Variant of Swine Hepatitis E Virus
... Swine hepatitis E virus is a newly identified potentially zoonotic virus from pigs of particular concern for possible direct transmission to a human xenotransplant recipient by organ ...to ...
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The U Rich Untranslated Region of the Hepatitis E Virus Induces Differential Type I and Type III Interferon Responses in a Host Cell Dependent Manner
... ABSTRACT Hepatitis E virus (HEV), a single-strand positive-sense RNA virus, is an understudied but important human ...The virus can establish infection at a number of host tissues, ...
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Prevalence of hepatitis E virus in thalassemia patients with hepatitis C in Tehran, Iran
... of hepatitis E virus antibody in patients with beta-thalassemia major was ...Chronic hepatitis C may found in the history of thalassemia patients (1, ...
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Virus-Specific mRNA Capping Enzyme Encoded by Hepatitis E Virus
... this virus-encoded enzyme family show some differences in their in vitro substrate specificity, given that their protein sequences have diverged considerably during evolution ...
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Prevalence and risk of hepatitis E virus infection in the HIV population of Nepal
... acute hepatitis cases in developing ...acute hepatitis in industrialized nations and occasionally can progress into a chronic infection in immunosuppressed hosts [4, ...acute hepatitis E occur ...
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A novel avian isolate of hepatitis E virus from Pakistan
... In the present study, we isolated and identified two novel aHEV (Pak aHEV) strains from the bile fluid of two 71 week old layer chickens with clinical symptoms related to HSS [24]. The fecal samples from the chickens ...
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Molecular Detection of HGV RNA in Chronic Hepatitis Patients from Afzalipoor General Hospital in Kerman, Iran
... this virus have been proposed based on the sequence analysis of the 5´ GBV- noncoding region 5´ (NCR) or E2 ...fulminant hepatitis due to HGV infection have been reported, but it remains unclear whether the ...
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Hepatitis B and E Co Primary Infections in an HIV 1 Infected Patient
... Abbott), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg; Abbott), HBe antigen (HBeAg; Abbott), and anti-HB core (anti-HBc) IgM (titer of ⬎200 IU/ml) (Vidas; bioMérieux) (Table ...diagnosis, hepatitis E ...
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