Hepatitis E virus

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
M S Khuroo, Mehnaaz S Khuroo

Abstract

Hepatitis E is an emerging infectious disease. This review will focus on recent advances in the zoonotic transmission, global distribution and control of hepatitis E. Hepatitis E virus infection is known to cause waterborne epidemics and sporadic infections in developing countries. Recently, there have been several reports on zoonotic foodborne autochthonous infections of hepatitis E in developed countries. Hepatitis E typically causes self-limited acute infection. Recent reports have documented hepatitis E virus causing chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis in patients after solid organ transplantation. High incidence and severity of hepatitis E in pregnant women have been re-confirmed. The reason for high mortality in pregnant women remains ill understood. A recombinant hepatitis E vaccine has been evaluated in a phase 2, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Nepal and was found to be well tolerated and efficacious. There has been considerable advance in understanding the epidemiology of hepatitis E virus infections in western countries. The occurrence of chronic hepatitis in organ transplant recipients opens a new chapter in hepatitis E epidemiology. The report on an efficacious and well tolerated recombinant vaccine gives hope ...Continue Reading

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