| epidemic and sporadic hepatitis e virus transmission in west kalimantan (borneo), indonesia. | a cross-sectional survey was conducted in west kalimantan (borneo), indonesia to geographically profile hepatitis e virus (hev) prevalence in the riverine areas recognized as the foci of epidemic hev transmission in 1987. additionally, a contiguous, although distinct, population with no identifiable historical exposure to epidemic hev was surveyed downstream for comparative purposes. eight hundred eighty-five sera were assayed by enzyme immunoabsorbent assay for anti-hev igg and anti-hepatitis a ... | 1997 | 9242320 |
| prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis e virus among apparently healthy humans and pigs in bali, indonesia: identification of a pig infected with a genotype 4 hepatitis e virus. | in indonesia where hepatitis e virus (hev) is believed to be highly endemic, only three outbreaks of hev transmission have been documented to date in restricted areas (west kalimantan and east java). a total of 1,115 serum samples collected from apparently healthy individuals in bali, lombok, and surabaya in indonesia in 1996 where epidemic hev transmissions have never been reported, were tested for igg class antibodies to hev (anti-hev). in bali, anti-hev was detected in 20% (54/276) of the tes ... | 2004 | 15042646 |