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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kenney SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563279 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen transmitting both human to human via the fecal oral route and from animals to humans through feces, direct contact, and consumption of contaminated meat products. Understanding the host range of the virus is critical for determining where potential threats to human health may be emerging from and where potential reservoirs for viral persistence in the environment may be hiding. Initially thought to be a human specific disease endemic to de ...[more]