Hepatitis E infection is usually a self-limiting disease and an important cause of acute
hepatitis in tropical and subtropical regions where the virus is endemic. In industrialized
countries, sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections have been described
and the number of documented autochthonous infections seems to be increasing. We report
three sporadic cases of autochthonous hepatitis E infections in Southwestern Germany
which presented at our university hospital within two years. All cases were men who …