Infection of a Japanese patient by genotype 4 hepatitis e virus while traveling in Vietnam.
Cases of imported hepatitis E in industrialized countries infected with a genotype 1 hepatitis E virus (HEV) have been identified. We report a 56-year-old Japanese man who acquired infection with a genotype 4 HEV with 98.8% identity to a Vietnamese isolate after ingestion of uncooked shellfish while traveling in Vietnam.
Department of Gastroenterology, Jichi Medical School, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Minamikawachi-Machi, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan.
Yuko
Y
Koizumi
Norio
N
Isoda
Yukihiro
Y
Sato
Takaaki
T
Iwaki
Kazunori
K
Ono
Kenichi
K
Ido
Kentaro
K
Sugano
Masaharu
M
Takahashi
Tsutomu
T
Nishizawa
Hiroaki
H
Okamoto
D000818:Animals; D005838:Genotype; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000662:veterinary; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013552:Swine / Q000821:virology; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000821:virology; D014195:Travel; D014744:Vietnam