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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 1925-1927Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.140891
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- French Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
- European Union [278433-PREDEMICS]
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Food products containing raw pork liver are suspected to be vehicles for transmission of hepatitis E virus. Four categories of food products, comprising 394 samples, were analyzed to determine hepatitis E virus prevalence. Virus was detected in 3%-30% of the different categories. Phylogenetic analysis showed high identity with human and swine sequences.
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