Hepatitis E virus in domestic pigs and surface waters in Slovenia: Prevalence and molecular characterization of a novel genotype 3 lineage

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1732-1737

  Steyer, Andrej ^a   Naglič, Tina ^b   Močilnik, Tina ^a   Poljšak Prijatelj, Mateja ^a   Poljak, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Genotype 3; Hepatitis E virus; Lineage; Pig farm; Surface water

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC PIG; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; RNA SEQUENCE; SLOVENIA; SURFACE PROPERTY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SLOVENIA; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 80053570623     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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