Hepatitis E should be considered a neglected tropical disease

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
² Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ World Health Organization, Juba, Republic of South Sudan.
⁴ International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
⁶ Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁷ Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ Chad Ministry of Health, Department of Communicable Diseases, N'Djamena, Chad.
⁹ Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Liver Foundation Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
¹¹ SAARC TB and HIV/AIDS Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
¹² World Hepatitis Alliance, London, United Kingdom.

Andrew S Azman et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 25;13(7):e0007453.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007453. eCollection 2019 Jul.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
² Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ World Health Organization, Juba, Republic of South Sudan.
⁴ International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
⁶ Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁷ Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ Chad Ministry of Health, Department of Communicable Diseases, N'Djamena, Chad.
⁹ Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Liver Foundation Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
¹¹ SAARC TB and HIV/AIDS Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
¹² World Hepatitis Alliance, London, United Kingdom.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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