ArticleFood and environmental virology2018
Hepatitis E Seroprevalence and Genotyping in a Cohort of Wild Boars in Southern Germany and Eastern Alsace.
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- Spatial variation in risk factors for anti-hepatitis E antibody titers in a population-based German study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prevalence, Genetic Diversity, and Quantification of the RNA Genome of the Hepatitis E Virus in Slaughtered Pigs in Serbia.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Hepatitis E Virus in the Wild Boar Population: What Is the Real Zoonotic Risk in Portugal?Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- [Hepatitis E virus-a zoonotic virus: distribution, transmission pathways, and relevance for food safety].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2022Review
- Hepatitis E Virus in the Food of Animal Origin: A Review.Foodborne pathogens and disease · 2021Review
- High Seroprevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection Among East Balkan Swine (Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Increasing Hepatitis E Virus Seroprevalence in Domestic Pigs and Wild Boar in Bulgaria.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Screening and Molecular Characterization of Hepatitis E Virus in Slaughter Pigs in Serbia.Food and environmental virology · 2019Article
- Prevalence of hepatitis E virus infection in wild boars from Spain: a possible seasonal pattern?BMC veterinary research · 2018Article
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Abstract
In the last few years it has been realized that the hepatitis E virus (HEV) is endemic in most industrialized countries and that it is a zoonotic disease. Potential reservoirs for HEV have been identified to be wild boars and deers, but HEV has also been found in domestic pigs and other animals. Due to the probable spread of the virus via contaminated food or contact to infected animals, HEV antibodies are present in more than 16% of the German adult population and rates are increasing with age. We collected blood from 104 wild boars in southern Germany and the border region of Alsace. We found an anti-HEV seroprevalence of 11.5% in our cohort, using ELISA. Furthermore, we observed active infection in 3.85% of the animals by positive HEV PCR in the sera of the boars. In our cohort, no regional differences of seroprevalence or active infection were seen. Sequencing revealed rather close homology of some detected HEV sequences to genotypes isolated from patients in Germany. Hence wild boars are a potential source of HEV infection in Middle Europe and the rate of infectious animals is quite high.
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