TY - JOUR AU - Garbuglia, Anna AU - Scognamiglio, Paola AU - Petrosillo, Nicola AU - Mastroianni, Claudio Maria AU - Sordillo, Pasquale AU - Gentile, Daniele AU - La Scala, Patrizia AU - Girardi, Enrico AU - Capobianchi, Maria T1 - Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 4 Outbreak, Italy, 2011 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 1 SP - 110 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During 2011, 5 persons in the area of Lazio, Italy were infected with a monophyletic strain of hepatitis E virus that showed high sequence homology with isolates from swine in China. Detection of this genotype in Italy parallels findings in other countries in Europe, signaling the possible spread of strains new to Western countries. KW - Hepatitis E virus KW - viruse KW - outbreak KW - zoonosis KW - genotype KW - Italy KW - viruses KW - hepatitis KW - HEV KW - RNA KW - PCR DO - 10.3201/eid1901.120983 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/1/12-0983_article ER - End of Reference