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Acute Hepatitis Associated With Autochthonous Hepatitis E Virus Infection--San Antonio, Texas, 2009

Rania A. Tohme, Jan Drobeniuc, Rosa Sánchez, Gary Heseltine, Bryan J. Alsip, Shifaq Kamili, Dale J. Hu, Fernando Guerra, Eyasu H. Teshale

Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2011 · 16 citations · 10 references

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Locally acquired hepatitis E infection is increasingly being observed in industrialized countries. We report 2 cases of autochthonous acute hepatitis E in the United States. Hepatitis E virus genotype 3a related to US-2 and swine hepatitis E virus strains was isolated from one of the patients, indicating potential food-borne or zoonotic transmission.

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