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Hepatitis E Vaccines

Hepatitis E was not recognized as a distinct disease until 1980, when waterborne epidemics of hepatitis in India, previously thought to have been caused by hepatitis A virus (HAV), were shown to have occurred in persons who were already immune…

Hepatitis E

Abbreviations ALT alanine aminotransferase FHF fulminant hepatic failure GBS Guillain-Barré syndrome HEV hepatitis E virus HIV human immunodeficiency virus ORF open reading frame Introduction For many years hepatitis E virus (HEV) was thought to be largely restricted to endemic developing…