Food and environmental routes of Hepatitis E virus transmission

•Food borne and environmental transmission are important in HEV epidemiology.•It is important to test for HEV in food production chains and the environment.•Quantitative HEV analyses and genotyping are needed to identify points of control.•HEV virus–cell interaction studies are needed to understand...

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Published inCurrent opinion in virology Vol. 4; pp. 91 - 96
Main Author Van der Poel, Wim HM
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.02.2014
Subjects
Animals
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Environmental Microbiology
family hepeviridae
Food Microbiology
Food Safety - methods
Foodborne Diseases - virology
genetic-variability
Hepatitis E - transmission
Hepatitis E virus
Hepatitis E virus - classification
Hepatitis E virus - genetics
Hepatitis E virus - isolation & purification
Humans
infection
liver sausage
non-a
non-b-hepatitis
pig-liver
replication
swine
wild boar
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ISSN1879-6257
1879-6265
1879-6265
DOI10.1016/j.coviro.2014.01.006

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