Evidence for widespread infection of wild rats with hepatitis E virus in the United States

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-335

  Kabrane Lazizi, Yamina ^a   Fine, Joshua B ^b   Elm, Joe ^c   Glass, Gregory E ^b   Higa, Harry ^d   Diwan, Arwind ^c   Gibbs Jr , Clarence J ^e   Meng, Xiang Jin ^f   Emerson, Suzanne U ^a   Purcell, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Department of Health ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032810440     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.331     Document Type: Article

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