Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus in Developing Countries.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV), an RNA virus of the <i>Hepeviridae</i> family, has marked heterogeneity. While all five HEV genotypes can cause human infections, genotypes HEV-1 and -2 infect humans alone, genotypes HEV-3 and -4 primarily infect pigs, boars and deer, and genotype HEV-7 primarily infects dr... View More