High prevalence of hepatitis E virus in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 378-383

  Hara, Yuka ^a   Terada, Yutaka ^a   Yonemitsu, Kenzo ^a   Shimoda, Hiroshi ^a   Noguchi, Keita ^a   Suzuki, Kazuo ^b   Maeda, Ken ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hikiiwa Park Center ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Japan; Wild boar; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; SWINE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84921424949     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2013-06-144     Document Type: Article

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