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Sporadic acute or fulminant hepatitis E in Hokkaido, Japan, may be food-borne, as suggested by the presence of hepatitis E virus in pig liver as food

Yazaki, Yasuyuki, Mizuo, Hitoshi, Takahashi, Masaharu, Nishizawa, Tsutomu, Sasaki, Nobuhiko, Gotanda, Yuhko, Okamoto, Hiroaki

Journal of General Virology 2003; 84(9):2351 · https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.19242-0

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Abstract

1 Center for Gastroenterology, Kobayashi Hospital, Hokkaido 090-8567, Japan
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Kin-ikyo Chuo Hospital, Hokkaido 007-0870, Japan
3 Immunology Division and Division of Molecular Virology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan
4 Department of Pediatrics, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan
5 Japanese Red Cross Saitama Blood Center, Saitama-Ken 360-0806, Japan