Hepatitis E
β Scribed by Hoofnagle, Jay H.; Nelson, Kenrad E.; Purcell, Robert H.
- Book ID
- 115489690
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 721 KB
- Volume
- 367
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0096-6762
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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 __