Open AccessHepatitis E virus: A leading cause of waterborne viral hepatitis in Northwest Districts of Punjab, India
Author(s) -
Maninder Kaur,
Stanley Sidhu,
Kanwardeep Singh,
Pushpa Devi,
Manpreet Kaur,
Nachhatar Jit Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of laboratory physicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0974-7826
pISSN - 0974-2727
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2727.199636
Subject(s) - hepatitis e virus , hepatitis a , hepatitis e , outbreak , medicine , viral hepatitis , hepatitis a virus , incidence (geometry) , veterinary medicine , sanitation , virology , environmental health , hepatitis , virus , biology , genotype , biochemistry , physics , pathology , gene , optics
Acute viral hepatitis (AVH) caused by enterically transmitted hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) poses a major health problem in developing countries such as India. Despite improving sanitation, heath awareness, and socioeconomic conditions, these infections continue to occur both in sporadic as well as in epidemic forms in different parts of India.