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The first case of genotype 4 hepatitis E related to wild boar in South Korea.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Mar 2011
Kim Yeo Myeong, Jeong Sook-Hyang, Kim Jong Yeop, Song Joon Chang, Lee Ji Hye, Kim Jin-Wook, Yun Haesun, Kim Jin Seon
Abstract excerpt
Several cases of serologically diagnosed hepatitis E have been reported in South Korea; however, there have been no documented cases of zoonotic transmission with virologic characterization of hepatitis E virus (HEV). We report on a sporadic case of autochthonous acute hepatitis E after ingestion of raw bile juice obtained from a wild boar living on a domestic mountain in a southern part of Korea. It is the first...
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