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JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
Volume 68, Issue 6, Pages 1256-1271Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2018.03.005
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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). (C) 2018 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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