Hepatitis E Virus Infection: A General Review with a Focus on Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplant Patients | Zendy

Seyed M. HosseiniMoghaddam | Zendy; Afagh Zarei | Zendy; Seyed Moayed Alavian | Zendy; Mehdi Mansouri | Zendy

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Hepatitis E Virus Infection: A General Review with a Focus on Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplant Patients

Author(s) -

Seyed M. HosseiniMoghaddam,

Afagh Zarei,

Seyed Moayed Alavian,

Mehdi Mansouri

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american journal of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1421-9670

pISSN - 0250-8095

DOI - 10.1159/000294505

Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis e virus , transmission (telecommunications) , outbreak , hepatitis e , hemodialysis , serology , disease , viral disease , infection control , immunology , virus , virology , intensive care medicine , antibody , genotype , biochemistry , chemistry , electrical engineering , gene , engineering

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a self-limited viral disease that causes acute hepatitis epidemics in developing countries. The common route of transmission for HEV is supposedly fecal-oral. Serological evidence may be unexpectedly found in hemodialysis (HD) patients and kidney transplant recipients. Although the route of HEV transmission is not usually determined in HD subjects, this virus seems to be transmitted either directly through HD or nosocomially. In this study, we gathered the published information on HEV infection in HD patients and kidney transplant recipients.

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