Article
Hepatitis E in High-Income Countries: What Do We Know? And What Are the Knowledge Gaps?
Viruses - 25 May 2018
Capai Lisandru, Charrel Rémi, Falchi Alessandra
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a positive-strand RNA virus transmitted by the fecal⁻oral route. HEV genotypes 1 and 2 infect only humans and cause mainly waterborne outbreaks. HEV genotypes 3 and 4 are widely represented in the animal kingdom, and are mainly transmitted as a zoonosis. For the past 20 years, HEV infection has been considered an imported disease in developed countries, but now there is evidence that...
Topics
- Animals
- Developed Countries
- Feces
- Genome, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepatitis E
- Hepatitis E virus
- Humans
- Swine
- Zoonoses