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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2024

Hepatitis E Virus: What More Do We Need to Know?

Endrit Shahini, Antonella Argentiero, Alessandro Andriano, Francesco Losito, Marcello Maida, Antonio Facciorusso, Raffaele Cozzolongo, Erica Villa

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Endrit ShahiniGastroenterology Unit, National Institute of Gastroenterology-IRCCS "Saverio de Bellis", Castellana Grotte, 70013 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4909-0436
Antonella ArgentieroIstituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Medical Oncology Unit, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Alessandro AndrianoDepartment of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari Aldo Moro Medical School, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0009-0003-1806-2584
Francesco LositoGastroenterology Unit, National Institute of Gastroenterology-IRCCS "Saverio de Bellis", Castellana Grotte, 70013 Bari, Italy.
Marcello MaidaGastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, S. Elia-Raimondi Hospital, 93100 Caltanissetta, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4992-9289
Antonio FacciorussoDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, 71122 Foggia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2107-2156
Raffaele CozzolongoGastroenterology Unit, National Institute of Gastroenterology-IRCCS "Saverio de Bellis", Castellana Grotte, 70013 Bari, Italy.
Erica VillaGastroenterology Unit, CHIMOMO Department, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41121 Modena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6388-7022

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is typically a self-limiting, acute illness that spreads through the gastrointestinal tract but replicates in the liver. However, chronic infections are possible in immunocompromised individuals. The HEV virion has two shapes: exosome-like membrane-associated quasi-enveloped virions (eHEV) found in circulating blood or in the supernatant of infected cell cultures and non-enveloped virions ("naked") found in infected hosts' feces and bile to mediate inter-host transmission. Although HEV is mainly spread via enteric routes, it is unclear how it penetrates the gut wall to reach the portal bloodstream. Both virion types are infectious, but they infect cells in different ways. To develop personalized treatment/prevention strategies and reduce HEV impact on public health, it is necessary to decipher the entry mechanism for both virion types using robust cell culture and animal models. The contemporary knowledge of the cell entry mechanism for these two HEV virions as possible therapeutic target candidates is summarized in this narrative review.

Indexed as

Hepatitis EHepatitis E virusAnimalsHumansVirionantiviral treatmentchronic infectionHEVinhibitorspregnancyviral cell entry

Identifiers

PMID38929615
PMCPMC11205503

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