A Nationwide Survey of Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Chronic Hepatitis E in Liver Transplant Recipients in Japan

A Nationwide Survey of Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Chronic Hepatitis E in Liver Transplant Recipients in Japan

Background: Recently, chronic hepatitis E has been increasingly reported in organ transplant recipients in European countries. In Japan, the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection after transplantation remains unclear, so we conducted a nationwide cross-sectional study to clarify the preval...

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Main Authors: Yuki Inagaki, Yukio Oshiro, Tomohiro Tanaka, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Hideaki Okajima, Kohei Ishiyama, Chikashi Nakanishi, Masaaki Hidaka, Hiroshi Wada, Taizo Hibi, Kosei Takagi, Masaki Honda, Kaori Kuramitsu, Hideaki Tanaka, Taiji Tohyama, Toshihiko Ikegami, Satoru Imura, Tsuyoshi Shimamura, Yoshimi Nakayama, Taizen Urahashi, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Hiroshi Ohnishi, Shigeo Nagashima, Masaharu Takahashi, Ken Shirabe, Norihiro Kokudo, Hiroaki Okamoto, Nobuhiro Ohkohchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Hepatitis E virus
Chronic hepatitis E
Liver transplantation
Transfusion
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396415301481

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