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Acute risk for hepatitis E virus infection among HIV-1-positive pregnant women in central Africa

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E virus (HEV), an enterically transmitted pathogen, is highly endemic in several African countries. Pregnant women are at particularly high risk for acute or severe hepatitis E. In Gabon, a central African country, the prevalence of antibodies to HEV among pregnant women is 14....

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Autores principales: Caron, Mélanie, Bouscaillou, Julie, Kazanji, Mirdad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495846/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23114258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-9-254