Hepatitis E Virus Infection Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients at a North American Transplant Center.

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Published in Open Forum Infect Dis on January 18, 2016

Authors

Paul K Sue1, Nora Pisanic2, Christopher D Heaney3, Michael Forman4, Alexandra Valsamakis4, Annette M Jackson5, John R Ticehurst3, Robert A Montgomery6, Kathleen B Schwarz7, Kenrad E Nelson8, Wikrom Karnsakul7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
2: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
3: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
4: Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology.
5: Department of Immunology, Division of Immunogenetics.
6: Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery, and.
7: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and.
8: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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