Prevalence of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs at the time of slaughter, United Kingdom, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1396-1401

  Grierson, Sylvia ^a   Heaney, Judith ^b   Cheney, Tanya ^a   Morgan, Dilys ^b   Wyllie, Stephen ^a   Powell, Laura ^a   Smith, Donald ^c   Ijaz, Samreen ^b   Steinbach, Falko ^a   Choudhury, Bhudipa ^a   Tedder, Richard S ^b,d  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPATITIS E; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PIG; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; BLOOD; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWINE DISEASES; VIROLOGY;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; INFECTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84937424938     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2108.141995     Document Type: Article

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