A Public Health initiative on hepatitis E virus epidemiology, safety and control in Portugal - study protocol

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mesquita, João R ^a   Myrmel, Mette ^b   Stene Johansen, Kathrine ^c   Øverbø, Joakim ^c   Nascimento, Maria S J ^d  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF VISEU   (Portugal)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS E; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; PRODUCT SAFETY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PUBLIC HEALTH; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIREMIA;

EID: 84954428106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1341-5     Document Type: Article

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