Hepatitis E Virus and Neurologic Disorders
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Hepatitis E Virus and Neurologic Disorders
Information about the spectrum of disease caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is emerging. During 2004-2009, at 2 hospitals in the United Kingdom and France, among 126 patients with locally acquired acute and chronic HEV genotype 3 infection, neurologic complications developed in 7 (5.5%): inflammatory polyradiculopathy (n = 3), Guillain-Barre syndrome (n = 1), bilateral brachial neuri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.100856