A case of acute hepatitis E (genotype 4) after eating uncooked meat and liver of wild boar captured in Yamaguchi prefecture, with a viral genome relatively closer to a Chinese isolate than to Japanese strains

Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 534-537

  Okita, Kohsuke ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^b   Harada, Katsunori ^a   Tanioka, Yukari ^a   Hirano, Atsuyoshi ^a   Kimura, Teruaki ^a   Kato, Akira ^a   Yamashita, Satoyoshi ^a   Arai, Masahiro ^b   Okita, Kiwamu ^a  

^a Shimonoseki Kousei Hospital   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E; Wild boar; Yamaguchi

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; WILD BOAR;

EID: 84922686391     PISSN: 04514203     EISSN: 18813593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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