A Nationwide Survey of Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Chronic Hepatitis in Heart and Kidney Transplant Recipients in Japan

Yohei Owada,Yukio Oshiro,Yuki Inagaki,Hiroshi Harada,Nobuhiro Fujiyama,Naoki Kawagishi,Takashi Yagisawa,Joichi Usui,Naotake Akutsu,Yoshihiro Itabashi,Kazuhide Saito,Yoshihiko Watarai,Naotsugu Ichimaru,Ryoichi Imamura,Miyaji Kyakuno,Kentaro Ide,Yuichi Shibuya,Yasuhiro Okabe,Minoru Ono,Konosuke Sasaki,Akira Shiose,Kazumasa Yamagishi,Hiroshi Ohnishi,Shigeo Nagashima,Masaharu Takahashi,Kenji Yuzawa,Hiroaki Okamoto,Nobuhiro Ohkohchi

A Nationwide Survey of Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Chronic Hepatitis in Heart and Kidney Transplant Recipients in Japan

2019

Background.Recently, chronic hepatitis E has been reported in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients in European countries. Previously, we clarified the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in Japanese liver transplant recipients and identified two chronic hepatitis E patients infected b

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Immunology
Hepatitis E virus infection
Hepatitis
Diabetes mellitus
Kidney
Medicine
Ribavirin
Antibody
Genotype
Hepatitis E virus
Transplantation
Immunoglobulin G
Blood transfusion
Internal medicine

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