Identification of the first strain of swine hepatitis E virus in South America and prevalence of anti-HEV antibodies in swine in Argentina

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1579-1583

  Munné, María S ^a,c   Vladimirsky, Sara ^a   Otegui, Lucio ^a   Castro, Raúl ^a   Brajterman, Leonardo ^a   Soto, Sonia ^a   Guarnera, Eduardo ^a   Molina, Viviana ^a   Monfellano, Marcela ^a   Schlauder, George G ^b   González, Jorge E ^a  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Genetic relatedness; HEV; Phylogenetic analysis; Swine HEV; Zoonotic infection

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SWINE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VECTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS; SUS SCROFA; SWINE HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 33750554663     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20741     Document Type: Article

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