TY - BOOK ID - 8209553 TI - Hepatitis E virus : an emerging zoonotic and foodborne pathogen AU - Bartolo, Ilaria Di. AU - Ostanello, Fabio. AU - Trevisani, Marcello. PY - 2013 SN - 146147521X 1461475228 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Hepatitis, Viral. KW - Hepatitis E KW - Emerging infectious diseases KW - Hepatitis, Viral, Human KW - Communicable Diseases KW - Hepatitis Viruses KW - Infection KW - Viruses KW - Virus Diseases KW - Bacterial Infections and Mycoses KW - Organisms KW - Diseases KW - Communicable Diseases, Emerging KW - Hepatitis E virus KW - Biology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Microbiology & Immunology KW - Hepatitis E. KW - Hepatitis. KW - Liver KW - Enterically-transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis KW - Epidemic non-A, non-B hepatitis KW - Hepatitis, Non-A, non-B KW - Non-A, non-B hepatitis, Enterically-transmitted KW - Waterborne hepatitis KW - Inflammation KW - Medicine. KW - Virology. KW - Food KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Food Science. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Medicine/Public Health, general. KW - Biotechnology. KW - Hepatitis, Viral KW - Medical virology. KW - Food science. KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Emerging infections KW - New infectious diseases KW - Re-emerging infectious diseases KW - Reemerging infectious diseases KW - Communicable diseases KW - Science KW - Medical microbiology KW - Virology KW - Virus diseases KW - Health Workforce KW - Food—Biotechnology. KW - Microbiology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8209553 AB - Hepatitis E (HEV) is a viral infectious disease that infects humans and domestic, wild, and synanthropic animals alike. In developing countries, the disease often presents as an epidemic, transmitted primarily through the fecal-oral route. In recent years, sporadic cases have also been documented in industrial countries, including Europe. The identification and characterization of animal strains of HEV from pigs, wild boar, and deer, and the demonstrated ability of cross-species infection by these animal strains raise potential public health concerns for foodborne and zoonotic transmission of the virus. This Brief will provide a thorough overview of HEV. It will discuss the epidemiology and pathogenesis of the virus in both humans and animals, review detection methods, and provide methods for its control and prevention. ER -