Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Monkey Facility, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2032-2034

  Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Juri ^b   Matsuda, Atsushi ^c   Ishida, Takafumi ^c   Ami, Yasushi ^d   Suzaki, Yuriko ^d   Adachi, Isao ^a   Wakita, Takaji ^d   Takeda, Naokazu ^c   Li, Tian Cheng ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 84869788146     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1812.120884     Document Type: Article

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