Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Dispatch
Hepatitis E Virus in Wild Boars and Spillover Infection in Red and Roe Deer, Germany, 2013–2015
Helena E. Anheyer-Behmenburg, Kathrin Szabo, Ulrich Schotte, Alfred Binder, Günter Klein, and Reimar Johne
Table 2
Organ distribution of HEV RNA in positive-screened wild boars and deer during 2 hunting seasons in a hunting area in Germany, 2013–2015*
| Animal species |
Sample type, no. positive/no. tested (%) | All |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liver |
Musculature |
Spleen |
Kidney |
Serum |
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| Wild boars | 26/26 (100.0) | 29/35 (82.9) | 23/27 (85.2) | 16/19 (84.2) | 32/34 (94.1) | 126/141 (89.4) |
| Deer |
4/5 (80.0) |
6/6 (100.0) |
2/4 (50.0) |
2/4 (50.0) |
3/5 (60.0) |
17/24 (70.8) |
| Total | 30/31 (96.8) | 35/41 (85.4) | 25/31 (80.7) | 18/23 (78.3) | 35/39 (89.7) | 143/165 (86.8) |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus.
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