First Report of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Sika Deer in China

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Zhang, Xiao-Xuan; Qin, Si-Yuan; Zhang, Yuan; Meng, Qing-Feng; Jiang, Jing; Yang, Gui-Lian; Zhao, Quan; Zhu, Xing-Quan;

(2015)

Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Journal: BioMed Research International,volume 2,015 (issn: 2314-6133, eissn: 2314-6141)

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Related identifiers: pmc: PMC4407398, doi: 10.1155/2015/502846
Subject: R | Research Article | Medicine | Article Subject
mesheuropmc: viruses | virus diseases | parasitic diseases | digestive system diseases

Hepatitis E virus (HEV), a single stranded RNA, nonenveloped virus, belongs to the genus Hepevirus, in the family of Hepeviridae. In this study, 46 (5.43%) out of the 847 serum samples from sika deer (Cervus nippon) were detected as seropositive with hepatitis E virus (... View more

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