| hepatitis e virus in swine and effluent samples from slaughterhouses in brazil. | hepatitis e is an infectious disease which virus (hev) is highly disseminated in swine herd populations. sporadic acute human hepatitis e cases have been associated to genotype 3 and 4 strains of hev also reported in swine populations of endemic and non-endemic areas. with the aim to evaluate the incidence of animals with current infection of hev, 115 bile samples were collected from three slaughterhouses under inspection by animal sanitary protection agency of rio de janeiro, brazil. in paralle ... | 2010 | 21129863 |