The high burden of HEV infection in solid organ transplant recipients
SOT recipients have higher hepatitis E seroprevalence than the non-transplant population. Increased exposure is driven by viremic infections and a significant burden of subclinical infections in Hong Kong. rHEV is an important cause of chronic hepatitis E in SOT recipients.
Authors
- Weihui Ma
- Siddharth Sridhar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2022-8307)
- Nicholas Foo‐Siong Chew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9479-1493)
- Kelvin Kai‐Wang To (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1921-5824)
- Estie Hon-Kiu Shun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5112-2276)
- Vincent Chi‐Chung Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-7706)
- James Yiu-Hung Tsoi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0045-637X)
- Jianwen Situ
- Zhiyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-8983)
- Henry Shu-Hung Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-8256)
- Shusheng Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8280-2960)
- T. Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7835-7557)
- Weiwei Mao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2517-2257)
- Xiaodan Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-8641)
- Yan Liang
- S. Ho
Institutions
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hepatology Communications
- Published
- 2025-07-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/hc9.0000000000000740
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.64