Hepatitis E virus: molecular virology, clinical features, diagnosis, transmission, epidemiology, and prevention

IK Mushahwar - Journal of medical virology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the sole member of the genus Hepevirus in the family of
Hepeviridae, is the major cause of several outbreaks of waterborne hepatitis in tropical and …

Molecular biology and pathogenesis of hepatitis E virus

V Chandra, S Taneja, M Kalia, S Jameel - Journal of biosciences, 2008 - Springer
The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a small RNA virus and the etiological agent for hepatitis E, a
form of acute viral hepatitis. The virus has a feco-oral transmission cycle and is transmitted …

Hepatitis E virus: foodborne, waterborne and zoonotic transmission

DM Yugo, XJ Meng - International journal of environmental research and …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is responsible for epidemics and endemics of acute hepatitis in
humans, mainly through waterborne, foodborne, and zoonotic transmission routes. HEV is a …

Hepatitis E: an overview and recent advances in clinical and laboratory research

R Aggarwal, K Krawczynski - Journal of gastroenterology and …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A review of hepatitis E virus

JL Smith - Journal of food protection, 2001 - Elsevier
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of outbreaks and sporadic cases of viral hepatitis in
tropical and subtropical countries but is infrequent in industrialized countries. The virus is …

Hepatitis E viruses in humans and animals

SD Goens, ML Perdue - Animal health research reviews, 2004 - cambridge.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging pathogen belonging to a newly recognized family of
RNA viruses (Hepeviridae). HEV is an important enterically transmitted human pathogen …

Clinical and epidemiological implications of swine hepatitis E virus infection

JC Wu, CM Chen, TY Chiang, IJ Sheen… - Journal of medical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In nonendemic areas, most patients with acute hepatitis E were infected through traveling to
endemic areas. However, some patients did not have a history of foreign travel before …

Cross-species infection of pigs with a novel rabbit, but not rat, strain of hepatitis E virus isolated in the United States

CM Cossaboom, L Córdoba… - Journal of General …, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important human pathogen. In addition to humans, HEV has
also been identified in pig, chicken, mongoose, deer, rat, rabbit and fish. There are four …

Hepatitis E virus

SK Panda, D Thakral, S Rehman - Reviews in medical virology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the aetiological agent of non‐HAV enterically transmitted hepatitis.
It is the major cause of sporadic as well as epidemic hepatitis, which is no longer confined to …

Identity of a novel swine hepatitis E virus in Taiwan forming a monophyletic group with Taiwan isolates of human hepatitis E virus

SY Hsieh, XJ Meng, YH Wu, ST Liu… - Journal of Clinical …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recently, we found that more than 10% of the cases of acute non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis
in Taiwan were caused by a novel strain of hepatitis E virus (HEV). Since none of these …