Molecular investigation of hepatitis E virus infection in domestic and miniature pigs used for medical experiments

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 503-510

  Tanaka, Hozumi ^a   Yoshino, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Eiji ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental animals; Hepatitis Evirus HEV RNA; Phylogenetic tree; Pigs; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; SWINE, MINIATURE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 7044261072     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2004.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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