| hev prevalence in the general population and among workers at zoonotic risk in latium region. | hepatitis e virus (hev) infections are responsible for large waterborne outbreaks in developing countries. sporadic cases in the developed world are mainly imported from endemic areas. hev has been suggested to be a zoonotic infection, for which pigs may be the reservoir; specific swine strains of hev have been identified. humans are susceptible to infections with swine strains. the aim of this study was to analyse whether italian pig farmers, veterinarians and abattoir workers are more exposed ... | 2007 | 17658105 |
| hepatitis e virus genotype 4 outbreak, italy, 2011. | during 2011, 5 persons in the area of lazio, italy were infected with a monophyletic strain of hepatitis e virus that showed high sequence homology with isolates from swine in china. detection of this genotype in italy parallels findings in other countries in europe, signaling the possible spread of strains new to western countries. | 2013 | 23260079 |
| emergence of autochthonous infections with hepatitis e virus of genotype 4 in europe. | in europe, autochthonous hepatitis e is caused by genotype 3 hepatitis e virus (hev) in almost all cases. a total of 15 infections with genotype 4 hev were diagnosed in france from may 2009 to april 2012, and all but one of the hev-4 strains implicated in these infections were genetically related and highly similar to hev-4 sequences isolated from swine in belgium. in addition, 5 autochthonous hev-4 infections have been described in the region of lazio, italy, during march and april 2011, and th ... | 2014 | 24157452 |
| viral and antibody prevalence of hepatitis e in european wild boars (sus scrofa) and hunters at zoonotic risk in the latium region. | hepatitis e virus (hev) is a member of the genus hepevirus within the family hepeviridae. hepatitis e is recognized as a zoonosis, and swine and wild boars (sus scrofa) are known reservoirs of hev infection. the aim of this study was to investigate the presence of hev in wild boars and hunters exposed to infection in central italy (latium region). during the hunting season, blood samples were collected from 228 wild boars and 20 hunters. the seroprevalence of hev infection was determined using a ... | 2015 | 26025105 |