Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Hepatitis E Virus in a Canadian Swine Production Network

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 296-304

  Nantel Fortier, Nicolas ^a   Letellier, Ann ^a   Lachapelle, Virginie ^a   Fravalo, Philippe ^a   L’Homme, Yvan ^a   Brassard, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Phylogenetic analysis; Production network; Swine; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOMITE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS DETECTION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; PIG; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CANADA; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MEAT; PHYLOGENY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84978881192     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-016-9252-6     Document Type: Article

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