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DIFFERENT FECAL SHEDDING PATTERNS OF TWO COMMON STRAINS OF HEPATITIS E VIRUS AT THREE JAPANESE SWINE FARMS
1 Dec 2006
Abstract excerpt
Zoonotic infections caused by eating the meat of deer, wild boar, and pig have been suggested in Japan, a country that is not epidemic for hepatitis E caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV). This virus is widely spread in domestic pigs in both epidemic and non-epidemic countries. We studied fecal HEV shedding patterns on three Japanese farms that had two common genotype III HEV strains. Two of the three farms had high...
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