Hepatitis e virus infection in North Italy: High seroprevalence in swine herds and increased risk for swine workers

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 145, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 3375-3384

  Mughini Gras, L ^a,b,c   Angeloni, G ^a   Salata, C ^d   Vonesch, N ^e   D'Amico, W ^e   Campagna, G ^e   Natale, A ^a   Zuliani, F ^a   Ceglie, L ^a   Monne, I ^a   Vascellari, M ^a   Capello, K ^a   Di Martino, G ^a   Inglese, N ^d   Palu G ^d   Tomao, P ^e   Bonfanti, L ^a  

^a Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb)   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; hepatitis E virus; hygiene; zoonotic infections

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS RNA; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY;

AFRICA; ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HERD; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OMNIVORE; PIG; PIGLET; SEROPREVALENCE; VEGAN; VEGETARIAN; WORKER; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL; BILE; BLOOD; FECES; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BILE; FARMERS; FECES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85034577551     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268817002485     Document Type: Article

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