Population
113 healthy Norwegian infants, followed from age 3 months to 28 months (1,255 fecal samples collected)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
From age 3 months to 28 months
Authors
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Suggests HEV burden in children may be underestimated by culture; leaves open need for outcome studies before changing diagnostics.
The prevalence of HEV infections, particularly HEV-A, in healthy infants is high and likely underestimated by traditional virus culture methods.
Witsø et al. (2006) studied this question.
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