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Case Reports
. 2005 Dec;11(12):1958-60.
doi: 10.3201/eid1112.051041.

Hepatitis E virus transmission from wild boar meat

Tian-Cheng Li  1 , Katsumi Chijiwa, Nobuyuki Sera, Tetsuya Ishibashi, Yoshiki Etoh, Yuji Shinohara, Yasuo Kurata, Miki Ishida, Shigeru Sakamoto, Naokazu Takeda, Tatsuo Miyamura
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Hepatitis E virus transmission from wild boar meat

Tian-Cheng Li et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Dec.

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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Phylogenetic tree of hepatitis E virus (HEV) reconstructed with avian HEV as an outgroup. Nucleotide sequences of the entire open reading frame 2 were analyzed by the neighbor-joining method. The bootstrap values correspond to 1,000 replications. The 2 nucleotide sequences characterized in this study are shown in bold. The horizontal scale bar at the top left indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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