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To the Editor: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the leading cause of water-borne epidemics of hepatitis in many developing countries in Asia and Africa, where high mortality has been reported among infected pregnant women.¹ Recently, it has become clear that sporadic hepatitis E occurs in persons in industrialized countries who have no evidence of exposure to HEV strains from countries where the infection is endemic.^1,2,3 However, the contribution of HEV to the development of fulminant hepatitis in industrialized nations is unclear.

To investigate whether HEV might be a cause of fulminant hepatitis in Japan, we conducted a study involving 18 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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