Hepatitis E Pathogenesis

Although most hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are asymptomatic, some can be severe, causing fulminant hepatitis and extra-hepatic manifestations, including neurological and kidney injuries. Chronic HEV infections may also occur in immunocompromised patients. This review describes how our understa...

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Autores principales: Lhomme, Sébastien, Marion, Olivier, Abravanel, Florence, Chapuy-Regaud, Sabine, Kamar, Nassim, Izopet, Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27527210
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8080212
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author Lhomme, Sébastien
Marion, Olivier
Abravanel, Florence
Chapuy-Regaud, Sabine
Kamar, Nassim
Izopet, Jacques
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description Although most hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are asymptomatic, some can be severe, causing fulminant hepatitis and extra-hepatic manifestations, including neurological and kidney injuries. Chronic HEV infections may also occur in immunocompromised patients. This review describes how our understanding of the pathogenesis of HEV infection has progressed in recent years.
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spelling pubmed-49975742016-08-26 Hepatitis E Pathogenesis Lhomme, Sébastien Marion, Olivier Abravanel, Florence Chapuy-Regaud, Sabine Kamar, Nassim Izopet, Jacques Viruses Review Although most hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are asymptomatic, some can be severe, causing fulminant hepatitis and extra-hepatic manifestations, including neurological and kidney injuries. Chronic HEV infections may also occur in immunocompromised patients. This review describes how our understanding of the pathogenesis of HEV infection has progressed in recent years. MDPI 2016-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4997574/ /pubmed/27527210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8080212 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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