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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hepatitis E virus infection

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Last updated:18th Jun 2018
EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hepatitis E virus infection - European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)


Infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, representing an important global health problem. Our understanding of HEV has changed completely over the past decade. Previously, HEV was thought to be limited to certain developing countries. We now know that HEV is endemic in most high-income countries and is largely a zoonotic infection. Given the paradigm shift in our understanding of zoonotic HEV and that locally acquired HEV is now the commonest cause of acute viral hepatitis in many European countries, the focus of these Clinical Practice Guidelines will be on HEV genotype 3 (and 4).

 

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