Hepatitis E: An overview and recent advances in clinical and laboratory research
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Vol. 15 (1) , 9-20
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1746.2000.02006.x
Abstract
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a non‐enveloped RNA (7.5 kb) virus that is responsible for large epidemics of acute hepatitis and a proportion of sporadic hepatitis cases in southeast and central Asia, th...Keywords
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