title: Molecular and serological characterization of sporadic acute hepatitis E in a Japanese patient infected with a genotype III hepatitis E virus in 1993.
abstract: Serum samples collected periodically from a 40-year-old Japanese woman who had not travelled abroad and who had contracted sporadic acute hepatitis E in 1993 were semi-quantitatively tested by enzyme immunoassay for IgM, IgA and IgG antibodies to hepatitis E virus (HEV). Anti-HEV IgM and IgA antibody levels were the highest (1 : 2400 dilution and 1 : 3400 dilution, respectively) on day 9 after the onset of hepatitis and then decreased rapidly in a parallel manner. Anti-HEV IgG antibody levels were the highest (1 : 17000 dilution) on day 145 and then decreased gradually but remained at high titres (1 : 2200 dilution) even 8.7 years after the onset of hepatitis. An HEV isolate, HE-JA10, recovered from the patient's serum at admission was closely related to a genotype III strain isolated in the United States (US1), with 92.2% identity over the full-length genome, and was most closely related to the JMY-Haw isolate of Japanese origin (95.4% identity).
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, National Tokyo Hospital, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-0023, Japan.
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tokita
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, National Tokyo Hospital, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-0023, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideharu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.affiliation: Japanese Red Cross Saitama Blood Center, Saitama-Ken 338-0001, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuhko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gotanda
authors.affiliation: Immunology Division and Division of Molecular Virology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.affiliation: Immunology Division and Division of Molecular Virology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.affiliation: Immunology Division and Division of Molecular Virology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000821:virology; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000097:blood; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000097:blood; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M; D012367:RNA, Viral