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            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.17.2.40</article-id>
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                <article-title>Seroprevalence of Hepatitis E Antibodies in Asymptomatic Antenatal Women from Tertiary Care Centre, Puducherry</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Riyaz</surname>
                        <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
						<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Umadevi</surname>
                        <given-names>S.</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Pramodhini</surname>
                        <given-names>S.</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Easow</surname>
                        <given-names>Joshy M.</given-names>
                    </name>
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          <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College  &#38; Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Pondicherry, India.</aff>
			
			 			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-05-30">
                <day>30</day>
				<month>05</month>
                <year>2023</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>17</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>1103</fpage>
            <lpage>1108</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2023 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/seroprevalence-of-hepatitis-e-antibodies-in-asymptomatic-antenatal-women-from-tertiary-care-centre-puducherry/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of AVH in developing countries. HEV causes a self-limiting infection that is transmitted mainly through the consumption of contaminated food and water. Our study aimed to find out the seroprevalence of  HEV infection.  Detected both IgG &#38; IgM antibodies from 100 asymptomatic antenatal women. ELISA (DIA PRO, Italy) was used to detect antibodies. Seropositivity was found in 9% of pregnant women, all might have been exposed to HEV infection previously. It could be unnoticed due to its self-limiting nature. IgG was 5% and IgM was 6%. Both IgM &#38; IgG were detected in two pregnant women. Untreated water was used by the majority of women irrespective of their educational status. Though it is a self-limiting disease, it is necessary to screen for its antibody. Awareness about the modes of transmission &#38; complications needs to be addressed in the community. It is necessary to do further studies for screening for HEV infection as there is a very limited number of studies published from South India.</p>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Hepatitis Virus</kwd>
        <kwd>Jaundice</kwd>
		<kwd>Immunoglobulin</kwd>
		
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