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Experimental model

Published by Siddharth Sridhar

Convenient small animal models of chronic hepatitis E are necessary for investigating the course of HEV infection in immunocompromised persons. Currently available small animal models for this purpose...


Public health

Published by Jose Debes

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emergent causative agent of acute hepatitis worldwide, transmitted mainly by the fecal-oral route, which can progress to chronicity in immunosuppressed patients. HEV ...


Animal reservoir

One health

Published by Marina Meester

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is very common in pig farms throughout the world and pigs are an important source of human infections in industrialized countries, probably mainly by consumption of ...


Virology

Published by Laurence Cocquerel, Martin Ferrié, Maliki Ankavay

HEV genome expresses three open reading frames (ORFs): ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3. ORF1 encodes the ORF1 non-structural polyprotein that is the viral replicase. ORF2 encodes the ORF2 viral capsid protein and...


Public health

Published by Abou Abdallah Malick DIOUARA

Hepatitis E is geographically a very heterogeneously distributed disease, being present in both developed and developing countries. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) transmission is essentially by the fecal–o...


Antiviral agent

Published by Mohammad Khalid Parvez

HEV has been recognized with eight genotypes (HEV1- HEV8), of which HEV1-HEV4 are infectious to humans. While HEV1 is waterborne infection causing self-limiting acute hepatitis E in general population...


Clinical feature

Published by Robert Fontana

Establishing a diagnosis of idiosyncratic drug induced liver injury (DILI) is challenging due to the need to exclude more common causes of acute liver injury such as viral hepatitis, pancreaticobiliar...


Public health

Published by Jahir Orozco

Infections caused by Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) have become more frequent in the last ten years, being HEV from serotype 3 the most prevalent virus identified in humans, pigs, and environmental samples i...


Virology

Published by Toni Lusie Meister, Eike Steinmann

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has increasing prevalence worldwide with over three million infections every year. HEV is the causative agent of hepatitis E in humans and is the leading cause of enterically t...


Virology

Published by Bo Wang, Xiang-Jin Meng

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pregnant women has a high incidence of developing fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) with significant mortality. Multiple amino acid changes in the genome of HEV-1 ar...


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2025-01-18

International Joint Meeting on Viral Infections of the Liver and the Heart (2025)
Day two of this symposium will place a special emphasis on Hepatitis E — a virus that, despite being the most common cause of viral hepatitis, offers a valuable opportunity for further research and understanding. Venue: Cantinerie Berlin Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 13355 Berlin, Germany. Organisers: Prof. Dr. Jens Kurreck, Dr. rer. nat. Daniel Todt, Prof. Dr. med. Heiner Wedemeyer, More information: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover : International DFG/DZIF Joint Meeting on Viral Infections of the Liver and the Heart (mhh.de)