Journal of Clinical Virology
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 44-48 , January 2007

Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus infection among institutionalized psychiatric patients in Taiwan

  • Pin-Nan Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Ru-Hsueh Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • I-Chin Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Jaw-Ching Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Research and Education, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Kuo-Chih Tseng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Kung-Chia Young

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Ting-Tsung Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Medicine, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, 138 Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 6 2766116; fax: +886 6 2347270.

Received 22 February 2006 ,Revised 13 June 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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PII: S1386-6532(06)00322-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2006.09.003

Journal of Clinical Virology
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 44-48 , January 2007

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