High Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

• Published in: Journal of wildlife diseases Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 378 - 383
• Main Authors: Hara, Yuka, Terada, Yutaka, Yonemitsu, Kenzo, Shimoda, Hiroshi, Noguchi, Keita, Suzuki, Kazuo, Maeda, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Business Office, 810 East 10th St., Lawrence, Kansas 66044-8897, USA Wildife Disease Association 01.04.2014
• Subjects: Animals; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - veterinary; Hepatitis E - epidemiology; Hepatitis E - veterinary; Hepatitis E - virology; Hepatitis E virus; Hepatitis E virus - genetics; Hepatitis E virus - isolation & purification; Japan; Japan - epidemiology; Phylogeny; SHORT COMMUNICATIONS; Sus scrofa; wild boar; zoonosis; Japan

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes a food- and water-borne disease in humans, and Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax) meat is one of the most important sources of infection in Japan. We tested 113 serum samples from wild boar captured in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan from 2010 to...