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Surveillance Study of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) in Domestic and Wild Ruminants in Northwestern Italy.
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- Serological and Molecular Survey of Hepatitis E Virus in Small Ruminants from Central Portugal.Food and environmental virology · 2024Article
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- Hepatitis E Virus in Livestock-Update on Its Epidemiology and Risk of Infection to Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
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- Prevalence of Foodborne Viruses in Berries Harvested in Canada.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Hepatitis E Virus (HEV): Identification of Subtypes 3b and 3m in Wild Boar Population in Liguria Region, Italy.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Current Knowledge of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Epidemiology in Ruminants.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- First identification of bovine hepacivirus in wild boars.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Epidemiological survey and risk factors associated with hepatitis E virus in small ruminants in southern Spain.Zoonoses and public health · 2022Article
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- Serological Evidence of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Infection Among Ruminant Farmworkers: A Retrospective Study from Malaysia.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Article
- Seroprevalence of Hepatitis E Virus in Moose (Viruses · 2021Article
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Abstract
In industrialized countries, increasing autochthonous infections of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are caused by zoonotic transmission of genotypes (Gts) 3 and 4, mainly through consumption of contaminated raw or undercooked pork meat. Although swine and wild boar are recognized as the main reservoir for Gt3 and Gt4, accumulating evidence indicates that other animal species, including domestic and wild ruminants, may harbor HEV. Herein, we screened molecularly and serologically serum and fecal samples from two domestic and four wild ruminant species collected in Valle d'Aosta and Piemonte regions (northwestern Italy. HEV antibodies were found in sheep (21.6%), goats (11.4%), red deer (2.6%), roe deer (3.1%), and in Alpine ibex (6.3%). Molecular screening was performed using different primer sets targeting highly conserved regions of hepeviruses and HEV RNA, although at low viral loads, was detected in four fecal specimens (3.0%, 4/134) collected from two HEV seropositive sheep herds. Taken together, the data obtained document the circulation of HEV in the geographical area assessed both in wild and domestic ruminants, but with the highest seroprevalence in sheep and goats. Consistently with results from other studies conducted in southern Italy, circulation of HEV among small domestic ruminants seems to occur more frequently than expected.
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