| 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 |
| identification of genotype 4 hepatitis e virus strains from a patient with acute hepatitis e and farm pigs in bali, indonesia. | a previous study revealed that antibodies to hepatitis e virus (hev) (anti-hev) are highly prevalent among healthy individuals and farm pigs in bali, indonesia, and suggested that hev infection may occur via zoonosis among balinese people. however, there were no reports of acute hepatitis e in bali. to elucidate whether balinese hev strains recovered from infected humans and pigs have significant sequence similarity, serum samples obtained from 57 patients (age, mean +/- standard deviation, 31.1 ... | 2007 | 17596841 |