title: Hepatitis E virus: an update on its molecular, clinical and epidemiological characteristics.
abstract: The present overview gives a summary of HEV infection comprising its discovery, a characterisation of the virus, its diagnosis, epidemiology, course of the disease, and finally its prevention.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Biochemistry Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Irshad
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence