| [autochthonous hepatitis e virus in southeastern france. 2 cases]. | hepatitis e virus is endemic in developing countries where it is especially lethal among pregnant women. as the circulation of goods and people grows between these countries and the industrialized nations, this virus is emerging as a cause of imported acute hepatitis in the latter, where authentic autochthonous cases also exist. | 2005 | 15988340 |
| hepatitis e virus infection in sheltered homeless persons, france. | to determine the prevalence of hepatitis e virus (hev) infection among sheltered homeless persons in marseille, france, we retrospectively tested 490 such persons. a total of 11.6% had immunoglobulin (ig) g and 2.5% had igm against hev; 1 person had hev genotype 3f. injection drug use was associated with igg against hev. | 2010 | 21029538 |
| hepatitis e virus infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. | hepatitis e virus (hev) is a newly-identified causative agent of acute and chronic hepatitis in severely immunocompromized patients. the present study sought to assess the prevalences of past, recent, on-going, and chronic hev infections in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in marseille, south-eastern france, and to determine if they were correlated with the patients' immunological status or with cirrhosis. anti-hev igg and igm and hev rna testing were concurrently perfor ... | 2011 | 21837786 |