Hepatitis E
β Scribed by Nassim Kamar; Richard Bendall; Florence Legrand-Abravanel; Ning-Shao Xia; Samreen Ijaz; Jacques Izopet; Harry R Dalton
- Book ID
- 117309601
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Volume
- 379
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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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 __