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Molecular Pathology of Liver Diseases pp 597–622Cite as

Viral Hepatitis E

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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an enterically transmitted (other routes of transmission may exist) RNA virus that causes an acute, self-limiting hepatitis in immunecompetent subjects, but may also cause chronic infection in immunesuppressed subjects. Infection with HEV may be asymptomatic or may cause hepatitis varying in degree of severity from mild to fulminant disease. Fulminant hepatitis E has been reported with increased frequency in pregnant women.

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