Aim: To study host gene expression and number of immune cells in liver tissues from patients with fulminant hepatitis E (FH-E).
Methods: Microarray-based expression profiling was done using Illumina Human WG-6_v3_BeadChip arrays on post-mortem liver tissue from 5 patients with FH-E, and compared with similar tissue from 6 patients with fulminant hepatitis B (FH-B; disease controls) and normal liver tissue from 6 persons. Differential expression was defined as ≥ 2.