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Genetic heterogeneity of swine hepatitis E virus isolates from Yunnan province, China in 2011-2012.
Virology journal - 4 Sept 2014
Shu Xianghua, Duan Xinhui, Song Chunlian, Li Jintao, Jiang Lei, Yin Gefen, Li Wengui
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E is a disease of major public-health concern mainly in developing countries. Although molecular and sero-epidemiological investigations of HEV have been performed in many provinces in China, the epidemiological data from Yunnan Province are limited and genotypes are not be fully characterized. In this study the prevalence and characteristics of hepatitis E virus (HEV) detected in pigs from...
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