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Pig Liver Sausage as a Source of Hepatitis E Virus Transmission to Humans
The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2010 · Vol. 202(6) · pp. 825–834
Philippe Colson✉(Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes)Patrick Borentain(Hôpital de la Conception)Benjamin Queyriaux(Institut de Veille Sanitaire)Mamadou Kaba(Hospital for Tropical Diseases)Valérie Moal(Hôpital de la Conception)Pierre Gallian(Établissement Français du Sang)Laurent Heyries(Hôpital de la Conception)Didier Raoult(Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST))René Gerolami(Hôpital de la Conception)
Abstract
Our findings strongly support the hypothesis of HEV infection through ingestion of raw figatellu.
Hepatitis Viruses Studies and EpidemiologyVeterinary medicine and infectious diseasesViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyHepatitis E virusVirologyBiologyZoonosisAntibodyGenotypeHepatitis EPolymerase chain reactionTransmission (telecommunications)Virus
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AdultAgedAnimalsChildFemaleFood MicrobiologyFranceHepatitis AntibodiesHumansImmunoglobulin GImmunoglobulin MLiverMaleMiddle AgedRNA, Viral
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Sporadic acute or fulminant hepatitis E in Hokkaido, Japan, may be food-borne, as suggested by the presence of hepatitis E virus in pig liver as food
Journal of General Virology · 2003 · 596 citations
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