Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a significant cause of acute hepatitis in endemic areas, such as parts of Asia, Africa, and Mexico, though HEV prevalence in the United States has been estimated between 6% and 20%. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects about 1 per 1.4 million people...

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Autores principales: Obeidat, Adham E, Monti, Gabriel, Sae-Ow, Wichit, Shinoda, Hiroko, Lim, Herbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33859880
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13809
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author Obeidat, Adham E
Monti, Gabriel
Sae-Ow, Wichit
Shinoda, Hiroko
Lim, Herbert
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description Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a significant cause of acute hepatitis in endemic areas, such as parts of Asia, Africa, and Mexico, though HEV prevalence in the United States has been estimated between 6% and 20%. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects about 1 per 1.4 million people in North America. Although well documented in Asia, HBV flare secondary to HEV superinfection is rarely reported in the United States. Here, we present a case of chronic undiagnosed HBV infection with acute flare secondary to HEV superinfection. 
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spelling pubmed-80388922021-04-14 Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare Obeidat, Adham E Monti, Gabriel Sae-Ow, Wichit Shinoda, Hiroko Lim, Herbert Cureus Internal Medicine Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a significant cause of acute hepatitis in endemic areas, such as parts of Asia, Africa, and Mexico, though HEV prevalence in the United States has been estimated between 6% and 20%. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects about 1 per 1.4 million people in North America. Although well documented in Asia, HBV flare secondary to HEV superinfection is rarely reported in the United States. Here, we present a case of chronic undiagnosed HBV infection with acute flare secondary to HEV superinfection.  Cureus 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8038892/ /pubmed/33859880 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13809 Text en Copyright © 2021, Obeidat et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Obeidat, Adham E
Monti, Gabriel
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Shinoda, Hiroko
Lim, Herbert
Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title_full Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title_fullStr Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title_full_unstemmed Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title_short Hepatitis E Virus Superinfection: an Underrecognized Trigger of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Flare
title_sort hepatitis e virus superinfection: an underrecognized trigger of acute hepatitis b virus flare
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33859880
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13809
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