Hepatitis E infections, Victoria, Australia.(Dispatches) From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Adamopoulos, Jim; Carter, Karen; Cowie, Benjamin C.; Kelly, Heath | COPYRIGHT 2005 U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the first half of 2004, acute hepatitis E virus infections diagnosed in Victoria, Australia, increased 7-fold. Of the interviewed patients with highly reactive serologic results, 90% reported recent clinically compatible illness and overseas travel. The increase is compared with a background of exposure in countries in which hepatitis E is endemic.

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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of enterically transmitted hepatitis worldwide. It is an ...