Hepatitis E virus serum antibodies and RNA prevalence in patients evaluated for heart and kidney transplantation

Hepatitis E virus serum antibodies and RNA prevalence in patients evaluated for heart and kidney transplantation

Background. Acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in solid organ transplant recipients is rare, but can cause severe hepatic and extrahepatic complications. We sought to identify the pretransplant prevalence of HEV infection in heart and kidney candidates and any associated risk factors for infect...

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Main Authors: Alberto Unzueta, M.D., Riccardo Valdez, Yu-Hui H. Chang, Yvonne M. Desmarteau, Raymond L. Heilman, Robert L. Scott, David D. Douglas, Jorge Rakela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
Subjects:
Risk Factors
Epidemiology
Diagnosis
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Nucleic acid amplification techniques
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119307380

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