Epidemiology of Hepatitis E in Pregnant Women and Children in Iran: A General Overview

作     者：Reza Taherkhani Fatemeh Farshadpour 

作者机构：Department of Microbiology and Parasitology School of Medicine Bushehr University of Medical Sciences Bushehr Iran Persian Gulf Biomedical Research Center Bushehr University of Medical Sciences Bushehr Iran Department of Microbiology and Parasitology School of Medicine Bushehr University of Medical Sciences Bushehr Iran Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center Bushehr University of Medical Sciences Bushehr Iran 

出 版 物：《Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology》 (临床与转化肝病杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第4卷第3期

页      面：269-276页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Hepatitis E virus Pregnant women Children Epidemiology Iran 

摘      要：From an epidemiological point of view,hepatitis E is an old infection in Iran,but only recently has its importance as a public health concern been considered from research and public health *** such,there is still a long road ahead to clarify the real burden of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in *** to the available epidemiological studies,the seroprevalence of HEV infection among pregnant women is between 3.6% and 7.4%,and among Iranian children is between 0.9% to 8.5%,varying by geographic regions within the country and directly dependent upon the sanitary status of *** addition to evaluating the sanitation level of a society,community-based seroprevalence studies of HEV infection demonstrate the most prevalent risk factors,the major routes of transmission,and the epidemiological patterns of HEV among that country s *** this review,the current knowledge about the pathogenesis and epidemiology of HEV infection in pregnant women and children in Iran,as well as the recent advances in diagnosis,prevention and treatment of HEV infection have been summarized.