Much meat, much malady: Changing perceptions of the epidemiology of hepatitis E

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-32

  Teo, C G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Food habits; Hepatitis; Jaundice; Review; Viral; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 71849101450     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03111.x     Document Type: Review

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