VIRAL HEPATITIS E DIAGNOSTICS

Abstract

Abstract. The results of clinical and epidemiological studies conducted in the M.P. Chumakov’ Research Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis and in the different research institutions of the world have been summarized in the current article. Data on etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, epidemiology and prevention of hepatitis E are presented. Increasing of significance of this infection for health care system in Russia is emphasized . The actual problems of hepatitis E (autochthonic hepatitis E, hepatitis E as zoonosis, chronic hepatitis E) are discussed.

Keywords

• hepatitis e virus
• epidemiology
• clinic
• genotypes
• diagnostics
• chronic hepatitis
• zoonosis