Hepatitis E Virus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wang, Youchun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 948
• Subjects: Medicine.; Vaccines.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Biology > Technique.; Biomedicine.; Vaccine.; Biological Techniques.; Infectious Diseases.

This book systematically and comprehensively discusses the biological, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis E virus (HEV). It presents current knowledge of HEV and explores experimental methods, treatment and prevention of HEV. First identified in the 1980s and cloned in 199...

Table of Contents:

• Hepatitis E virus (HEV) biology
• Characteristics and functions of HEV proteins
• Epidemiology of hepatitis E
• Hepatitis E as a zoonosis
• Genetic evolution of HEV
• Transmission of HEV
• Immunobiology and host response
• HEV cell culture systems
• HEV animal models
• Clinical manifestations of hepatitis E
• Laboratory diagnosis of HEV infection
• Treatment of HEV infection
• Prophylactic Hepatitis E vaccine.