ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2003
Hepatitis E virus epidemiology in industrialized countries.
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- Hepatitis E Virus in the Iberian Peninsula: A Systematic Review.Food and environmental virology · 2023Pooled it
- Occurrence of Hepatitis A Virus in Water Matrices: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Hepatitis E Virus in Water Environments: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Food and environmental virology · 2022Pooled it
- Use of serological assays for diagnosis of hepatitis E virus genotype 1 and 3 infections in a setting of low endemicity.Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI · 2007Trial
- A capsid hinge region in European hepatitis E virus links mutations to genotype, virion surface properties, and environmental circulation.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Clinical Guidelines for Hepatitis E Vaccination in India: An Expert Panel Consensus Report on the Recombinant Hepatitis E Vaccine, HEV 239.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Livestock aggregated samples for monitoring viruses infecting animals and potentially zoonotic viral pathogens.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Genetic insights into hepatitis E virus through environmental surveillance in Europe.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Evaluating Viral Pollution in Wastewater and Mediterranean Ecosystems.Food and environmental virology · 2026Article
- Wastewater Surveillance to Estimate and Characterize Hepatitis E Virus Circulation.Food and environmental virology · 2025Article
- Seroepidemiological Survey of Hepatitis E Virus in Intensive Pig Farming in Vojvodina Province, Serbia.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Chronic hepatitis E in an elderly immunocompetent patient who achieved a sustained virologic response with ribavirin treatment.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Computational design of experimentally validated multi-epitopes vaccine against hepatitis E virus: An immunological approach.PloS one · 2023Article
- Exploring hepatitis E virus seroprevalence and associated risk factors among the human population in Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Hepatitis E virus in pigs and the environment: An updated review of public health concerns.Narra J · 2022Review
- The Foodborne Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus to Humans.Food and environmental virology · 2021Review
- Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Lessons learnt from recent studies to define future applications.The Science of the total environment · 2021Review
- Analyses of Clinical and Biological Data for French and Belgian Immunocompetent Patients Infected With Hepatitis E Virus Genotypes 4 and 3.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Detection and Characterization of Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 in Wastewater and Urban Surface Waters in Germany.Food and environmental virology · 2020Article
- Nine-Year Nationwide Environmental Surveillance of Hepatitis E Virus in Urban Wastewaters in Italy (2011-2019).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
To determine the prevalence of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in industrialized nations, we analyzed the excretion of HEV strains by the populations of Spain, France, Greece, Sweden, and the United States. Twenty of 46 (43.5%) urban sewage samples collected in Barcelona from 1994 to 2002 tested positive for HEV. We identified 15 HEV strains, which were similar to two HEV isolates previously described in Barcelona in clinical samples and to strains from diverse geographic HEV-nonendemic areas. We also identified two HEV strains in sewage samples from Washington, D.C., and Nancy, France; these samples were also positive for Hepatitis A virus. In addition, we studied the role of pigs as a reservoir for HEV and identified one new swine HEV strain. Our results suggest that HEV may be more prevalent than previously considered in industrialized countries and that variants of the virus circulate simultaneously in one region.
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