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Hepatitis E Virus Transmission from Wild Boar Meat

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2005

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Tian‐Cheng Li, Katsumi Chijiwa, Nobuyuki Sera, Tetsuya Ishibashi, Yoshiki Etoh, Yuji Shinohara, Yasuo Kurata, Miki Ishida, Shigeru Sakamoto, Naokazu Takeda,
Emerging infectious diseases

Abstract

We investigated a case of hepatitis E acquired after persons ate wild boar meat. Genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA was detected in both patient serum and wild boar meat. These findings provided direct evidence of zoonotic foodborne transmission of HEV from a wild boar to a human.

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