Prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) Infection in wild boars and deer and genetic identification of a genotype 3 HEV from a boar in Japan.
Zoonotic transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) from captured wild deer or boars to humans has been suggested. Antibody to HEV was detected in 9% of 35 wild boars and 2% of 117 wild deer tested, and a presumably indigenous HEV of genotype 3 was isolated from a boar in Japan.
Sonoda
Hideto
H
Nishiarita Kyoritsu Hospital, Saga-Ken, Japan.
Abe
Masahiko
M
Sugimoto
Takeshi
T
Sato
Yukihiro
Y
Bando
Masashi
M
Fukui
Emiko
E
Mizuo
Hitoshi
H
Takahashi
Masaharu
M
Nishizawa
Tsutomu
T
Okamoto
Hiroaki
H
D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000821:virology*; D003670:Deer / Q000821:virology*; D005838:Genotype; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008099:Liver / Q000821:virology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015995:Prevalence; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013552:Swine / Q000821:virology*; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000821:virology
D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies; D012367:RNA, Viral