Hepatitis E Virus: An Update on Its Molecular, Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Intervirology
- Vol. 42 (4), 252-262
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000024985
Abstract
The present overview gives a summary of HEV infection comprising its discovery, a characterisation of the virus, its diagnosis, epidemiology, course of the disease, and finally its prevention.Keywords
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