First case of genotype 4 human hepatitis E virus infection acquired in India.

Category Primary study
JournalJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
Year 2010
This report describes a case of severe hepatitis in an individual returning from India which was found to be the result of infection with HEV genotype 4. HEV was diagnosed using a novel RT-PCR assay (with internal control) for HEV RNA detection/quantitation, described herein. This is the first documented report of zoonotic transmission of HEV genotype 4 infection acquired in India.
Epistemonikos ID: d1e863b931e9206d7eeb8fd3e92f2b5b474ee5e3
First added on: Sep 22, 2024