Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 in humans and swine, Bolivia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1488-1490

  Dell'Amico, Maria Chiara ^a   Cavallo, Annalisa ^b   Gonzales, José Luis ^c   Bonelli, Sara Irene ^b   Valda, Ybar ^c   Pieri, Angela ^b   Segundo, Higinio ^d   Ibañez, Ramón ^c   Mantella, Antonia ^b   Bartalesi, Filippo ^b   Tolari, Francesco ^a   Bartoloni, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio de Investigación y Diagnóstico Veterinario   (United States)

^d Distrito de Salud Cordillera   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960877570     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.100769     Document Type: Article

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