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Hepatitis E

✍ Scribed by Susan J. Skidmore

Book ID: 104164625
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 204 KB
Volume: 91
Category: Article
ISSN: 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(97)90192-9

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✦ Synopsis

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 areas where the virus is endemic.

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## Abstract Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a positive‐stranded RNA virus with a 7.2 kb 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 __