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Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in Canadian swine herds and identification of a novel variant of swine hepatitis E virus.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Nov 2001
Yoo D, Willson P, Pei Y, Hayes M A, Deckert A, Dewey C E, Friendship R M, Yoon Y, Gottschalk M, Yason C, Giulivi A
Abstract excerpt
Swine hepatitis E virus is a newly identified potentially zoonotic virus from pigs of particular concern for possible direct transmission to a human xenotransplant recipient by organ transplantation. In the present study, prevalence of serum antibodies to hepatitis E virus was examined in Canadian swine herds. A total of 998 serum samples collected from 6-month-old healthy slaughter hogs were examined by enzyme...
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