Hepatitis E
β Scribed by Rakesh Aggarwal; Shahid Jameel
- Book ID
- 102243340
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 314 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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Hepatitis E (HEV) is a faeco-orally transmitted hepatitis virus. It has many features similar to hepatitis A but some differences, notably the high mortality caused by HEV in pregnant women. A vaccine is being developed but at the moment only a clean water supply will reduce the number of cases in a
## Abstract Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a positiveβstranded RNA virus with a 7.2βkb genome that is capped and polyadenylated. The virus is currently unclassified: the organisation of the genome resembles that of the __Caliciviridae__ but sequence analyses suggest it is more closely related to the __