Isolation, detection and characterization of swine hepatitis E virus from herds in Costa Rica

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-176

  Kase, Julie A ^a   Correa, Maria T ^b   Luna, Carlos ^c   Sobsey, Mark D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Disease reservoirs; Hepatitis E virus; Molecular epidemiology; Public health; Surveillance; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

AMINO ACID; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HOMINID; NUCLEIC ACID; PHYLOGENETICS; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HERD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; LATIN AMERICA;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE; SWINE HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 45849100180     PISSN: 09603123     EISSN: 13691619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603120701498311     Document Type: Article

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