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Hepatitis E Seroprevalence and Genotyping in a Cohort of Wild Boars in Southern Germany and Eastern Alsace.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Jun 2018
Weigand Kilian, Weigand Kurt, Schemmerer Mathias, Müller Martina, Wenzel Juergen J
Abstract excerpt
In the last few years it has been realized that the hepatitis E virus (HEV) is endemic in most industrialized countries and that it is a zoonotic disease. Potential reservoirs for HEV have been identified to be wild boars and deers, but HEV has also been found in domestic pigs and other animals. Due to the probable spread of the virus via contaminated food or contact to infected animals, HEV antibodies are...
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