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Evidence of hepatitis E infection in swine and humans in the East Region of Romania.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Aniţă Adriana, Gorgan Lucian, Aniţă Dragoş, Oşlobanu Luanda, Pavio Nicole, Savuţa Gheorghe
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered to be a new zoonotic agent due to its close genomic resemblance to the human HEV. The aim of this study was to determine human HEV seroprevalence in eastern Romania and to characterize circulating swine HEV sequences. METHODS: Serological investigations of human serum samples were done using a commercial ELISA kit (MP Biomedicals). Swine faecal samples were...
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