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Hepatitis E virus in swine and effluent samples from slaughterhouses in Brazil.
Veterinary microbiology - 21 Apr 2011
dos Santos Debora Regina Lopes, de Paula Vanessa Salete, de Oliveira Jaqueline Mendes, Marchevsky Renato Sérgio, Pinto Marcelo Alves
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E is an infectious disease which virus (HEV) is highly disseminated in swine herd populations. Sporadic acute human hepatitis E cases have been associated to genotype 3 and 4 strains of HEV also reported in swine populations of endemic and non-endemic areas. With the aim to evaluate the incidence of animals with current infection of HEV, 115 bile samples were collected from three slaughterhouses under...
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