Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in pigs in Northern Italy

The prevalence of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pigs in Northern Italy was serologically examined. The survey was carried out on 39 farms: 17 farrow-to-feeder, 10 farrow-to-finish, and 12 fattening enterprises. There were 1,422 sera that were tested using commercial indirect ELISA. This m...

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Autores principales: Martinelli, Nicola, Luppi, Andrea, Cordioli, Paolo, Lombardi, Guerino, Lavazza, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2011
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957120
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v1i0.7331
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author Martinelli, Nicola
Luppi, Andrea
Cordioli, Paolo
Lombardi, Guerino
Lavazza, Antonio
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description The prevalence of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pigs in Northern Italy was serologically examined. The survey was carried out on 39 farms: 17 farrow-to-feeder, 10 farrow-to-finish, and 12 fattening enterprises. There were 1,422 sera that were tested using commercial indirect ELISA. This method originally developed for testing human sera was adapted for the analysis of pig sera. All farms except one (97.43%) and 714 sera samples (50.21%) resulted positive for anti-HEV IgG antibodies. This study confirms that HEV is widespread in pigs in Italy and might be endemic on most farms.
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spelling pubmed-34263392012-09-06 Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in pigs in Northern Italy Martinelli, Nicola Luppi, Andrea Cordioli, Paolo Lombardi, Guerino Lavazza, Antonio Infect Ecol Epidemiol Short Communication The prevalence of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pigs in Northern Italy was serologically examined. The survey was carried out on 39 farms: 17 farrow-to-feeder, 10 farrow-to-finish, and 12 fattening enterprises. There were 1,422 sera that were tested using commercial indirect ELISA. This method originally developed for testing human sera was adapted for the analysis of pig sera. All farms except one (97.43%) and 714 sera samples (50.21%) resulted positive for anti-HEV IgG antibodies. This study confirms that HEV is widespread in pigs in Italy and might be endemic on most farms. Co-Action Publishing 2011-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3426339/ /pubmed/22957120 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v1i0.7331 Text en © 2011 Nicola Martinelli et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in pigs in Northern Italy
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