Frequent Hepatitis E Virus Contamination in Food Containing Raw Pork Liver, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1925-1927

  Pavio, Nicole ^a   Merbah, Thiziri ^a   Thébault, Anne ^a  

^a FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PORK; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E; MEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PIG; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ORF2 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS E VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SWINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84908103292     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.140891     Document Type: Article

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