Hepatitis e virus infection in central china reveals no evidence of cross-species transmission between human and swine in this area

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Wen ^a,b   Yang, Shixing ^a   Ren, Liping ^c   Shen, Quan ^a   Cui, Li ^a   Fan, Kezhang ^c   Huang, Fen ^a   Kang, Yanjun ^a   Shan, Tongling ^a   Wei, Jianzhong ^d   Xiu, Haifeng ^e   Lou, Yifang ^f   Liu, Junfeng ^a   Yang, Zhibiao ^a   Zhu, Jianguo ^a   Hua, Xiuguo ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Fuyang People's Hospital   (China)

^f First People's Hospital of Sixian   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SWINE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MIRIDAE; SUIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949533351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008156     Document Type: Article

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