Increased HEV seroprevalence in patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Increased HEV seroprevalence in patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection takes a clinically silent, self-limited course in the far majority of cases. Chronic hepatitis E has been reported in some cohorts of immunocompromised individuals. The role of HEV infections in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is unknown. METHOD...

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Main Authors: Sven Pischke, Anett Gisa, Pothakamuri Venkata Suneetha, Steffen Björn Wiegand, Richard Taubert, Jerome Schlue, Karsten Wursthorn, Heike Bantel, Regina Raupach, Birgit Bremer, Behrend Johann Zacher, Reinhold Ernst Schmidt, Michael Peter Manns, Kinan Rifai, Torsten Witte, Heiner Wedemeyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3897432?pdf=render

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