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Hepatitis E Virus in the Iberian Peninsula: A Systematic Review
Santos-Silva, S; Moraes, DFDD; López-López, P; Rivero-Juarez, A; Mesquita, JR; Nascimento, MSJOne of the most frequent causes of acute viral hepatitis is hepatitis E virus (HEV) causing 20 million infections worldwide each year and 44,000 deaths. Studies on HEV in the Iberian Peninsula have been increasing through time with HEV infection being identified in humans and animals. The aim of the present systematic review was to compile and evaluate all the published data on HEV from studies performed in hum...
Survey of Zoonotic Diarrheagenic Protist and Hepatitis E Virus in Wild Boar (Su...
Santos-Silva, S; Moraes, DFDD; Lopez-Lopez, P; Palmeira, JD; Torres, RT; Nascimento, MS; Dashti, A; Carmena, D; Rivero-Juarez, A; Mesquita, JRSimple Summary Enteropathogenic viruses, such as hepatitis E virus, and diarrhoeagenic protists have been frequently reported in swine and can infect a wide range of mammals, including humans. Data on their fecal shedding and circulation pathways are still lacking or incomplete. Hence, the aim of the present study was to characterize the presence of microeukaryotes and HEV in the wild boar of Portugal. Of the 1...