Genetically similar hepatitis E virus strains infect both humans and wild boars in the Barcelona area, Spain, and Sweden

Wang, Hao; Castillo‐Contreras, Raquel; Saguti, Fredy; Ramón Lopez‐Olvera, Jorge; Karlsson, Marie; Mentaberre, Gregorio; Lindh, Magnus; Serra‐Cobo, Jordi; Norder, Heléne

doi:10.1111/tbed.13115

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Genetically similar hepatitis E virus strains infect both humans and wild boars in the Barcelona area, Spain, and Sweden

Published in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases • Dec 31, 2018

Authors:

Hao Wang

Raquel Castillo‐Contreras

Fredy Saguti

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a hepatotropic virus, endemic in Europe where it infects humans and animals, with domestic pigs and wild boars as main reservoirs. The number of HEV-infected cases with unknown source of infection increases in Europe. There are human HEV strains genetically similar to viru...

Subject

Wild boar

Biology

Hepatitis E virus

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