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Detection and characterization of infectious Hepatitis E virus from commercial pig livers sold in local grocery stores in the USA.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 2007
Feagins A R, Opriessnig T, Guenette D K, Halbur P G, Meng X-J
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a zoonotic pathogen of which pigs are reservoirs. To determine the presence of HEV RNA in commercial pig livers sold in local grocery stores in the USA, 127 packages of commercial pig liver were purchased and tested by a universal RT-PCR assay capable of detecting all four known HEV genotypes. Among the 127 livers tested, 14 were positive for HEV RNA. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses...
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