Zoonotic hepatitis E virus: classification, animal reservoirs and transmission routes

V Doceul, E Bagdassarian, A Demange, N Pavio - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
During the past ten years, several new hepatitis E viruses (HEVs) have been identified in
various animal species. In parallel, the number of reports of autochthonous hepatitis E in …

Zoonotic hepatitis E virus: an ignored risk for public health

Y Nan, C Wu, Q Zhao, EM Zhou - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a quasi-enveloped, single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus.
HEV belongs to the family Hepeviridae, a family comprised of highly diverse viruses …

Distinct disease features of acute and persistent genotype 3 hepatitis E virus infection in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed Mongolian gerbils

S Subramaniam, R Fares-Gusmao, S Sato… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes self-limited acute hepatitis in immunocompetent individuals
and can establish chronic infection in solid organ transplant recipients taking …

Viral hepatitis E and chronicity: a growing public health concern

V Thakur, RK Ratho, S Kumar, SK Saxena… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hepatitis E viral infection recently emerges as a global health concern. Over the last decade,
the understanding of hepatitis E virus (HEV) had changed with the discovery of new …

Pig model mimicking chronic hepatitis E virus infection in immunocompromised patients to assess immune correlates during chronicity

D Cao, QM Cao, S Subramaniam… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a significant clinical problem in
immunocompromised individuals such as organ transplant recipients, although the …

Role of envelopment in the HEV life cycle

X Yin, X Li, Z Feng - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), an enterically transmitted hepatotropic virus, was thought to be non-
enveloped for decades. However, recent studies have revealed that the virus circulating in …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis E: a literature review

JAAA Guerra, KC Kampa, DGB Morsoletto… - Journal of clinical and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis E is the fifth known form of human viral hepatitis. Although not very common in our
clinical practice, the incidence in Western countries is increasing. Infection with the hepatitis …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis E virus in professionally exposed: A reason for concern?

A Mrzljak, I Balen, L Barbic, M Ilic… - World journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The zoonotic risk of hepatitis E virus (HEV) is well established. The HEV seroprevalence
rates vary according to geographical region, assays used, and study cohorts. HEV infection …

Prevalence and molecular characterization of the hepatitis E virus in retail pork products marketed in Canada

O Mykytczuk, J Harlow, S Bidawid, N Corneau… - Food and environmental …, 2017 - Springer
Infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV) is very common worldwide. HEV causes acute viral
hepatitis with approximately 20 million cases per year. While HEV genotypes 1 and 2 cause …

High prevalence of hepatitis E virus infection in goats

F Long, W Yu, C Yang, J Wang, Y Li… - Journal of Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of acute hepatitis worldwide, primarily transmitted
by fecal‐oral route. Zoonotic transmission of HEV from HEV‐infected pigs (pork) or cows …