Foodborne transmission of hepatitis E virus from raw pork liver Sausage, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1945-1947

  Renou, Christophe ^a   Afonso, Anne Marie Roque ^b   Pavio, Nicole ^c  

^a Hopital d'Hyeres   (France)

^b HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^c FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FRANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORK; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEAKNESS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PIG; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MEAT PRODUCTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SWINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84908095943     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.140791     Document Type: Letter

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