Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15

• Author(s): Adlhoch, Cornelia ; Avellon, Ana ; Baylis, Sally A. ; Ciccaglione, Anna R. ; Couturier, Elisabeth ; de Sousa, Rita ; Epštein, Jevgenia ; Ethelberg, Steen ; Faber, Mirko ; Fehér, Ágnes ; Ijaz, Samreen ; Lange, Heidi ; Manďáková, Zdenka ; Mellou, Kassiani ; Mozalevskis, Antons ; Rimhanen-Finne, Ruska ; Rizzi, Valentina ; Said, Bengü ; Sundqvist, Lena ; Thornton, Lelia ; Tosti, Maria E. ; van Pelt, Wilfrid ; Aspinall, Esther ; Domanovic, Dragoslav ; Severi, Ettore ; Takkinen, Johanna ; Dalton, Harry R.
• Date: 2016
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4537
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Hepatitis E virus; Epidemiology; Europe; Surveillance; Zoonotic Infections; Infecções Sistémicas e Zoonoses
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Description

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is endemic in EU/EEA countries, but the understanding of the burden of the infection in humans is inconsistent as the disease is not under EU surveillance but subject to national policies.