Clinical Features of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Ibaraki, Japan: Autochthonous Hepatitis E and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

275 Received November 7, 2014; revised and accepted March 5, 2015. Published online March 21, 2015; doi: 10.1620/tjem.235.275. Correspondence: Yukio Oshiro, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Gastroenterological and Hepatobiliary Surgery, and Organ Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan. e-mail: oshiro@md.tsukuba.ac.jp Clinical Features of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Ibaraki, Japan: Autochthonous Hepatitis E and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure