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Human and swine hepatitis E viruses from Western India belong to different genotypes.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Mar 2002
Arankalle Vidya A, Chobe Leenata P, Joshi Manohar V, Chadha Mandeep S, Kundu Biduth, Walimbe Atul M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Hepatitis E is endemic in India. Earlier, we showed prevalence of IgG antibodies to hepatitis E virus (IgG-anti-HEV) in different animal species and inability of at least one human hepatitis E virus (HEV) strain to infect pigs. In the US where hepatitis E is not endemic in humans, zoonotic spread of HEV was suspected as swine and human HEV were closely related and cross-species infection was...
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