| identification of the first strain of swine hepatitis e virus in south america and prevalence of anti-hev antibodies in swine in argentina. | in argentina, a country considered non-endemic for hepatitis e virus (hev) infection, serologic evidence of hev infection has been observed in different human population groups. in other countries, a high degree of genetic relatedness has been observed between human and swine hev genotype 3 sequences, suggesting zoonosis as one probable route of infection. this is the first identification of swine hev in south america. hev rna was detected and sequenced in the orf 1 and orf 2 regions from swine ... | 2006 | 17063523 |