Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Infection in Wild Boars and Deer and Genetic Identification of a Genotype 3 HEV from a Boar in Japan

Author:

Sonoda Hideto1,Abe Masahiko2,Sugimoto Takeshi3,Sato Yukihiro4,Bando Masashi5,Fukui Emiko6,Mizuo Hitoshi7,Takahashi Masaharu8,Nishizawa Tsutomu8,Okamoto Hiroaki8

Affiliation:

1. Nishiarita Kyoritsu Hospital, Saga-Ken

2. Hokkaido Prefectural Haboro Hospital

3. Yamakuni-machi Tsukinoki Clinic, Oita-Ken

4. Division of Gastroenterology

5. Division of Pulmonary Medicine

6. Department of Animal Breeding and Reproduction, Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi-Ken, Japan

7. Department of Internal Medicine, Kin-ikyo Chuo Hospital, Hokkaido

8. Department of Medicine, and Division of Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical School

Abstract

ABSTRACT Zoonotic transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) from captured wild deer or boars to humans has been suggested. Antibody to HEV was detected in 9% of 35 wild boars and 2% of 117 wild deer tested, and a presumably indigenous HEV of genotype 3 was isolated from a boar in Japan.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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