Investigation of hepatitis E virus infection in swine from Hunan province, China

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1391-1396

  Li, Xiuji ^a,b   Zhao, Chenyan ^a   Harrison, Tim J ^c   Song, Aijing ^a   Fan, Jinping ^a   Zhang, Jingang ^b   Wang, Youchun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTROL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti HEV antibody; Genotype; Hepatitis E virus capsid antigen; RNA; Subtype; Swine

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; INFECTION RATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHINA; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MIRIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 46049095469     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21246     Document Type: Article

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