| markers for ongoing or previous hepatitis e virus infection are as common in wild ungulates as in humans in sweden. | hepatitis e virus (hev) is a human pathogen with zoonotic spread, infecting both domestic and wild animals. about 17% of the swedish population is immune to hev, but few cases are reported annually, indicating that most infections are subclinical. however, clinical hepatitis e may also be overlooked. for identified cases, the source of infection is mostly unknown. in order to identify whether hev may be spread from wild game, the prevalence of markers for past and/or ongoing infection was invest ... | 2016 | 27657108 |
| high prevalence of hepatitis e virus in swedish moose--a phylogenetic characterization and comparison of the virus from different regions. | hepatitis e virus (hev) infects a range of species, including humans, pigs, wild boars and deer. zoonotic transmission may contribute to the high hev seroprevalence in the human population of many countries. a novel divergent hev from moose (alces alces) in sweden was recently identified by partial genome sequencing. since only one strain was found, its classification within the hev family, prevalence in moose and zoonotic potential was unclear. we therefore investigated samples from 231 moose i ... | 2015 | 25906163 |
| hepeviridae: an expanding family of vertebrate viruses. | the hepatitis e virus (hev) was first identified in 1990, although hepatitis e-like diseases in humans have been recorded for a long time dating back to the 18th century. the hev genotypes 1-4 have been subsequently detected in human hepatitis e cases with different geographical distribution and different modes of transmission. genotypes 3 and 4 have been identified in parallel in pigs, wild boars and other animal species and their zoonotic potential has been confirmed. until 2010, these genotyp ... | 2014 | 25050488 |
| novel hepatitis e like virus found in swedish moose. | a novel virus was detected in a sample collected from a swedish moose (alces alces). the virus was suggested as a member of the hepeviridae family, although it was found to be highly divergent from the known four genotypes (gt1-4) of hepatitis e virus (hev). moose are regularly hunted for consumption in the whole of scandinavia. thus, the finding of this virus may be important from several aspects: (a) as a new diverged hev in a new animal species, and (b) potential unexplored hev transmission p ... | 2014 | 24296469 |