Hepatitis E virus genotype 4, Denmark, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 156-157

  Midgley, Sofie ^a   Vestergaard, Hanne Thang ^a   Dalgaard, Camilla ^a   Enggaard, Lone ^a   Fischer, Thea Kølsen ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; CHINA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 4; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

AUTOCHTHONOUS; DENMARK; EMERGENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; VIRUSES; ZOONOSES;

DENMARK; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84890933213     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2001.130600     Document Type: Letter

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