Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong

Most acute cases of infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Hong Kong were autochthonous, sporadic, and occurred in older adults. All except 1 isolate belonged to genotype 4; most were phylogenetically related to swine isolates. The epidemiology is similar to that in industrialized countries, wher...

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Autores principales: Lam, Wai-Yip, Chan, Rickjason C.W., Sung, Joseph J.Y., Chan, Paul K.S.
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19402972
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1505.081579
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author Lam, Wai-Yip
Chan, Rickjason C.W.
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description Most acute cases of infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Hong Kong were autochthonous, sporadic, and occurred in older adults. All except 1 isolate belonged to genotype 4; most were phylogenetically related to swine isolates. The epidemiology is similar to that in industrialized countries, where zoonosis is the major source of HEV infection in humans.
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spelling pubmed-26870422009-05-28 Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong Lam, Wai-Yip Chan, Rickjason C.W. Sung, Joseph J.Y. Chan, Paul K.S. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Most acute cases of infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Hong Kong were autochthonous, sporadic, and occurred in older adults. All except 1 isolate belonged to genotype 4; most were phylogenetically related to swine isolates. The epidemiology is similar to that in industrialized countries, where zoonosis is the major source of HEV infection in humans. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2687042/ /pubmed/19402972 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1505.081579 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Lam, Wai-Yip
Chan, Rickjason C.W.
Sung, Joseph J.Y.
Chan, Paul K.S.
Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title_full Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title_fullStr Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title_full_unstemmed Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title_short Genotype Distribution and Sequence Variation of Hepatitis E Virus, Hong Kong
title_sort genotype distribution and sequence variation of hepatitis e virus, hong kong
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19402972
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1505.081579
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