| complete or near-complete nucleotide sequences of hepatitis e virus genome recovered from a wild boar, a deer, and four patients who ate the deer. | zoonosis has been implicated in hepatitis e virus (hev) transmission. we examined wild boar living in a forest of hyogo prefecture, japan, and found hev rna in three of seven boars. a full-genome hev isolate from one of them was revealed to be 99.7% identical to a previous isolate from a wild deer hunted in the same forest and to those from four patients who contracted hepatitis e after eating raw meat of the deer. these findings suggest an interspecies hev transmission between boar and deer in ... | 2004 | 15567444 |