1. Hepatitis E Virus in Pigs from Slaughterhouses, United States, 2017-2019
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Sooryanarain, Harini, Heffron, Connie L., Hill, Dolores E., Fredericks, Jorrell, Rosenthal, Benjamin M., Werre, Stephen R., Opriessnig, Tanja, and Meng, Xiang-Jin
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Diseases ,International economic relations ,Disease transmission ,Hepatitis E ,Grocery stores -- International economic relations ,Resveratrol ,Slaughterhouses ,Infection ,Pork industry -- International economic relations ,Food contamination ,Blood donation ,RNA ,Swine ,Business logistics ,Industrialized countries ,Genotypes ,Meat industry ,Immunoglobulin G - Abstract
Hepatitis E virus (HEV; family Hepeviridae, genus Orthohepevirus A) comprises at least 8 distinct genotypes (1). In industrialized countries, swine HEV of the zoonotic genotypes 3 and 4 (HEV-3 and [...]
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- 2020
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