Infection dynamics of hepatitis E virus in naturally infected pigs in a Chinese farrow-to-finish farm

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1727-1731

  Feng, Ruofei ^a   Zhao, Chenyan ^b   Li, Mingsheng ^a   Harrison, Tim J ^c   Qiao, Zilin ^a   Feng, Yuping ^a   Ma, Zhongren ^a   Wang, Youchun ^b  

^a NORTH MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTROL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS   (China)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Genotype 4; Hepatitis E virus; Infection; Swine

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHINESE; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIG FARMING; PIGLET; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHINA; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; RNA, VIRAL; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 80053570819     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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