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. 2006 Oct;51(10):1712-5.
doi: 10.1007/s10620-005-9061-5.

Brief report: no evidence for parvovirus B19 or hepatitis E virus as a cause of acute liver failure

W M Lee  1 , K E Brown, N S Young, G J Dawson, G G Schlauder, R A Gutierrez, R Fontana, L Rossaro, T Davern, E Lalani; Acute Liver Failure Study Group
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Brief report: no evidence for parvovirus B19 or hepatitis E virus as a cause of acute liver failure

W M Lee et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

Viral hepatitis A and B are known to cause acute liver failure. While nearly 20% of acute liver failure cases are of indeterminate etiology, screening for other viruses has not been uniformly performed. We looked for evidence for parvovirus B19 and hepatitis E virus in sera from U.S. acute liver failure patients. For B19, 78 patients' sera, including 34 with indeterminate etiology, were evaluated by DNA dot-blot hybridization, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for immunoglobin G and M antibodies; none showed evidence for infection.

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