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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.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2004
Sonoda Hideto, Abe Masahiko, Sugimoto Takeshi, Sato Yukihiro, Bando Masashi, Fukui Emiko, Mizuo Hitoshi, Takahashi Masaharu, Nishizawa Tsutomu, Okamoto Hiroaki
Abstract excerpt
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.
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