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Hepatitis E Virus: Relevance in Blood Donors and Risk Groups
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The incidence of HEV in Spain is similar to that in other Western European countries, and HEV is probably not transmitted parenterally to children.Abstract:
Background and Objectives: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection usually causes acute self–limited disease. HEV is associated with faecal–contaminated drinking water, but other vectors,read more
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A comparison of two commercially available anti-HEV IgG kits and a re-evaluation of anti-HEV IgG seroprevalence data in developed countries
TL;DR: The results suggest that published studies of HEV seroprevalence using the GL assay have underestimated the true figure and that a properly validated method is required to make meaningful comparisons of HEv serop revalence between populations.
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Hepatitis E virus epidemiology in industrialized countries.
Pilar Clemente-Casares,Sonia Pina,Maria Buti,Rosend Jardi,Margarita Martín,Sílvia Bofill-Mas,Rosina Girones +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that HEV may be more prevalent than previously considered in industrialized countries and that variants of the virus circulate simultaneously in one region.
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HEV identified in serum from humans with acute hepatitis and in sewage of animal origin in Spain
TL;DR: It is suggested that the HEV could be more widespread than previously thought, and new evidence of the close relationship between HEV strains detected in pigs and those from acute hepatitis patients is presented.
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Hepatitis E virus: molecular virology, clinical features, diagnosis, transmission, epidemiology, and prevention.
TL;DR: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the major cause of several outbreaks of waterborne hepatitis in tropical and subtropical countries and of sporadic cases of viral hepatitis in endemic and industrialized countries as mentioned in this paper.
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Transmission routes and risk factors for autochthonous hepatitis E virus infection in Europe: a systematic review.
TL;DR: Based on current evidence that points to zoonotic transmission from pigs, thorough cooking of all porcine products, prevention of cross-contamination in the kitchen and improved education for occupationally exposed people may help prevent HEV infection.
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Vertical transmission of hepatitis E virus
TL;DR: It is concluded that hepatitis E virus is commonly transmitted from infected mothers to their babies with significant perinatal morbidity and mortality.
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Enterically-transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis.
TL;DR: Accumulating evidence suggests that a high proportion of this non-A, non-B hepatitis (NANB) is enterically transmitted and is caused by one virus or class of serologically related viruses.
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Epidemic Transmission of Enterically Transmitted Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis in Mexico, 1986-1987
Oscar Velazquez,H Stetler,Carlos Avila,Gloria Ornelas,Carlos A. Alvarez,Stephen C. Hadler,Daniel W. Bradley,Jaime Sepúlveda +7 more
TL;DR: To the authors' knowledge, these investigations document for the first time the epidemic transmission of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis virus in the Americas.
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Hepatitis E virus transmission to a volunteer
TL;DR: The presence of HEV in serum before clinical signs appeared suggests that in endemic areas sporadic transmission of HEVs may also occur parenterally, and clinical and biochemical features of the infection correlated with HEV detection in the stools and sera by reverse transcription/polymerase chain amplification.