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Published on: June 26, 2020
The first case of genotype 4 hepatitis E related to wild boar in South Korea
Yeo Myeong Kim1, Sook-Hyang Jeong, Jong Yeop Kim
1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gumi-dong 300, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Several cases of serologically diagnosed hepatitis E have been reported in South Korea; however, there have been no documented cases of zoonotic transmission with virologic characterization of hepatitis E virus (HEV). We report on a sporadic case of autochthonous acute hepatitis E after ingestion of raw bile juice obtained from a wild boar living on a domestic mountain in a southern part of Korea. It is the first case of hepatitis E acquired through presumably zoonotic transmission, which was verified as genotype 4 HEV.
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