Genotype 4 hepatitis e virus in france: an autochthonous infection with a more severe presentation.

Jeblaoui, Asma; Haim-Boukobza, Stephanie; Marchadier, Eric; Mokhtari, Camelia; Roque-Afonso, Anne-Marie · Clin Infect Dis · 2013

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

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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