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Causal organism of hepatitis E is not only in wild animals in the Czech Republic

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové |
2013

Abstract

An increasing incidence of endemic hepatitis E (HE) has been reported in developed countries. Genotype 3 of hepatitis E virus has been isolated from patients with acute HE and from different animal species (in particular, domestic pigs, wild boar, and deer are the ones most likely to be involved in human transmission).