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Published on: June 26, 2020
Epidemiological screening for hepatitis E virus in bile specimens from livestock in northwest China
Zhong-jun Shao1, Jing-hua Li, Ying-jie Zheng
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, People's Republic of China.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 26, 2008
Abstract:
Hepatitis E has been hypothesized as a zoonosis. However, there is no definite conclusion about which animal species contribute to hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in humans. In this study, HEV RNA was detected only in swine bile specimens and not in bile specimens collected from cattle, goats, or dogs. We postulate that swine are the main animal reservoir for HEV.