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SUBMITTER: Marascio N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8968488 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marascio Nadia N Rotundo Salvatore S Quirino Angela A Matera Giovanni G Liberto Maria Carla MC Costa Chiara C Russo Alessandro A Trecarichi Enrico Maria EM Torti Carlo C
World journal of gastroenterology 20220301 12
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are both RNA viruses with a tropism for liver parenchyma but are also capable of extrahepatic manifestations. Hepatitis E is usually a viral acute fecal-oral transmitted and self-limiting disease presenting with malaise, jaundice, nausea and vomiting. Rarely, HEV causes a chronic infection in immunocompromised persons and severe fulminant hepatitis in pregnant women. Parenteral HCV infection is typically asymptomatic for decades until chronic c ...[more]