Hepatitis E virus in pork production chain in Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1282-1289

  Di Bartolo, Ilaria ^a   Diez Valcarce, Marta ^b   Vasickova, Petra ^c   Kralik, Petr ^c   Hernandez, Marta ^b   Angeloni, Giorgia ^a   Ostanello, Fabio ^d   Bouwknegt, Martijn ^e   Rodríguez Lázaro, David ^b   Pavlik, Ivo ^c   Ruggeri, Franco Maria ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AGRARIO DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN   (Spain)

^c VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PORCINE ADENOVIRUS; PORK; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPAIN; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ITALY; LIVER; MEAT; SPAIN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84864419168     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.111783     Document Type: Article

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