High proportion of asymptomatic infections in an outbreak of Hepatitis E associated with a spit-roasted piglet, France, 2013

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 351-357

  Guillois, Yvonnick ^a   Abravanel, Florence ^b   Miura, Takayuki ^c   Pavio, Nicole ^d   Vaillant, Véronique ^a   Lhomme, Sébastien ^b   Le Guyader, Françoise S ^c   Rose, Nicolas ^e   Le Saux, Jean Claude ^c   King, Lisa A ^a   Izopet, Jacques ^b   Couturier, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d INRA   (France)

^e Swine Immunology and Virology Unit   (France)

Author keywords

asymptomatic infection; hepatitis E virus; outbreak; pork liver; wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSUMER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FRANCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANURE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FRANCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962245304     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ862     Document Type: Article

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