First isolation of hepatitis E virus genotype 4 in Europe through Swine surveillance in the Netherlands and Belgium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  van der Honing, Renate W Hakze ^a   van Coillie, Els ^b   Antonis, Adriaan F G ^a   van der Poel, Wim H M ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79960967461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022673     Document Type: Article

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