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Development of a CRISPR-Cas13-based antiviral strategy against hepatitis E virus [PDF]

JHEP Reports
Background & Aims: Effective antiviral drugs remain unavailable for many clinically relevant pathogens, including the hepatitis E virus (HEV).
Emely Richter, Mara Klöhn, Maximilian K. Nocke, Marcel Edgar Friedrich, Daniel Todt, Eike Steinmann, Yannick Brüggemann   +6 more
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Hepatitis E Virus Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in High-Risk Groups: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Background: Seroepidemiology, risk factors to hepatitis E virus exposure, and prevalence of hepatitis E virus viremia have not yet been investigated among patients under immunosuppression or with liver disease that are high risk for infection in Turkey ...
Hatice Yasemin Balaban, Abdullah Tarık Aslan, Fatma Nur Akdoğan-Kittana, Alpaslan Alp, Osman Dağ, Şefika Nur Ayar, Cavanşir Vahabov, Cem Şimşek, Tolga Yıldırım, Hakan Göker, Koray Ergünay, Yunus Erdem, Yahya Büyükaşık, Halis Şimşek   +13 more
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Hepatitis E Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in Turkey

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Background: Hepatitis E virus is a re-emerging pathogen with an increase in human cases that can lead to chronic infection in immunosuppressed patients.
Seval Öğüt, Ayça Arzu Sayıner, Barış Otlu, Gülendam Bozdayı, Ayşın Zeytinoğlu, Sebahat Aksaray, Dilek Çolak, Selma Gökahmetoğlu, Murat Aysın   +8 more
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Hepatitis E: Genotypes, strategies to prevent and manage, and the existing knowledge gaps

JGH Open, 2021
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered an emergent source of viral hepatitis worldwide, with an increasing burden of jaundice, liver failure, extrahepatic illnesses, and deaths in developed countries. With the scarcity of data from efficient animal models,
Lubna Kamani, Zahra Ali Padhani, Jai K Das   +2 more
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Hepatitis E Virus: How It Escapes Host Innate Immunity

Vaccines, 2020
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of viral hepatitis in the world. It is usually responsible for acute hepatitis, but can lead to a chronic infection in immunocompromised patients.
Sébastien Lhomme, Marion Migueres, Florence Abravanel, Olivier Marion, Nassim Kamar, Jacques Izopet   +5 more
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Seroprevalence and Potential Risk Factors of Hepatitis E Virus among Pregnant Women in Khartoum, Sudan

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
Although hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been widely understood as a public health concern in pregnant females, it is sometimes overlooked because of unusual observations of hepatitis E-induced complications during pregnancy.
Alaa Abdulrahman Mohammad Mustafa, Wafaa Mohammed Abdalla, Hind Haidar Ahmed, Samar M. Saeed, Ahmed Ibrahim Hashim, Sarrah Elnoor Khalifa, Ahmed Bakheet AbdAlla, Tagwa Salah Ahmed, Kashaf Junaid   +8 more
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Seroclearance of hepatitis B surface antigen following hepatitis E exacerbation on chronic hepatitis E and B dual infection in a renal transplant recipient: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Hepatitis E virus infection usually causes an acute and self-resolving hepatitis. In areas where chronic hepatitis B virus infection is prevalent, acute hepatitis E virus superinfection on chronic hepatitis B virus infection occurs ...
Chau-Ting Yeh, Christopher Sung-Huan Yeh, Yu-De Chu, Yang-Jen Chiang   +3 more
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Feco-orally transmitted viral hepatitis in a tertiary care hospital in urban India [PDF]

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2013
Objective:To investigate the magnitude and pattern of hepatitis viral markers in feco-orally transmitted acute viral hepatitis with their relation to age and sex.
Monika Rajani, Manoj Jais
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Chronic hepatitis E virus infection in a patient with leukemia and elevated transaminases: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012
Introduction Acute hepatitis E virus infection may cause mild, self-limiting hepatitis, either as epidemic outbreaks or sporadic cases, the latter of which have been reported in industrialized countries.
Gauss Annika, Wenzel Juergen J, Flechtenmacher Christa, Navid Mojdeh, Eisenbach Christoph, Jilg Wolfgang, Stremmel Wolfgang, Schnitzler Paul   +7 more
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Severe Acute Hepatitis E in a Woman with an Autoimmune Background

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2020
Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 infections are normally asymptomatic in immunocompetent individuals. Symptomatic cases of acute icteric hepatitis E are seldom observed among women, younger men and children but are particularly seen in middle-aged/elderly ...
Maria S.J. Nascimento, Madalena Almeida-Santos, Maria Fernandes, Fernando Maltez, Sara Lino, Martin D. Curran, João R. Mesquita   +6 more
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