Viral hepatitis is a common disease caused by various hepatotropic viruses. An awareness of the characteristics and transmission patterns of these viruses will help nurses to understand the diverse clinical outcomes of infection and develop effective patient education and infection prevention and control strategies.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is endemic in the United Kingdom but the complete sequence of HEV, generated directly from a clinical sample, is lacking. We report a near full-length genome sequence of genotype 3 HEV from the serum of a patient with acute hepatitis.

BACKGROUND Cases of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been rising across the United States, and southwest Ohio is no exception. OBJECTIVES To describe the rise in cases of HCV in our region, the Ohio Disease Reporting System was reviewed for all cases of positive HCV testing from 2010 through August 2015. METHODS 29,018 cases were reviewed, with 18,678 (64.4%) cases included in the final a...

Background: The most common symptoms in neonates with severe COVID-19 infection have been respiratory problems. virus may adversely affect organs such as the liver. Methods: Studies focusing solely on liver involvement newborns were searched Pubmed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. Eight studies finally reviewed. Results: Direct viral invasion (COVID-19-induced hepatitis or systemic inflam...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is responsible for large waterborne epidemics of acute hepatitis in endemic regions and for sporadic autochthonous cases in non endemic regions. Although the water vector has been thoroughly documented in endemic regions, very little is known about the modes of contamination occurring in non endemic regions. Unlike the other hepatitis viruses, HEV has an animal reservoir...