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Genotype 4 Hepatitis E Virus in France: An Autochthonous Infection With a More Severe Presentation

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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages E122-E126

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit291

Keywords

HEV; HEV genotype 4; epidemiology; virulence

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Among hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections diagnosed in 2011 by the French Reference Centre for HEV, 9 were due to genotype 4, which until recently was limited to Asia. Sequences from autochthonous cases formed a single cluster very similar to Belgian swine sequences. Clinical presentation differed from genotype 3 infections.

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