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Journal Article
Hepatitis E
2012
Overview
Hepatitis E may be the most common cause of acute hepatitis in the world, occurring primarily in developing countries but increasingly recognized in developed countries. It can have striking clinical manifestations, including acute-on-chronic liver failure and neurologic complications.
Hepatitis E, the fifth known form of human viral hepatitis, is probably the most common cause of acute hepatitis and jaundice in the world.
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Yet in the United States and other developed nations, hepatitis E is uncommon, and its role in causing liver disease is not well defined. This disease was initially identified in 1980 as “epidemic, non-A, non-B hepatitis,” an infectious, waterborne illness similar to hepatitis A that was common in the developing countries but rare elsewhere.
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Three years later, Mikhail Balayan visualized the hepatitis E virus (HEV) using immune electron microscopy to examine his own stool . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
