Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2001-2018 by Ehsan Mostafavi, Abdolmajid Ghasemian, Abubakar Abdinasir, Seyed Alireza Nematollahi Mahani, Salman Rawaf, Mostafa Salehi Vaziri, Mohammad Mahdi Gouya, Tran Minh Nhu Nguyen, Salah Al Awaidy, Lubna Al Ariqi, Md. Mazharul Islam, Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag, Majdouline Obtel, Peter Omondi Mala, Ghassan M. Matar, Rana Jawad Asghar, Amal Barakat, Mohammad Nadir Sahak, Mariam Mansouri, Alexandra Swaka

“…Results  Leishmaniasis, hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) are reported from all countries in the region. …”
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Wastewater surveillance of enteric viruses in eastern Argentina: High rates of detection and first report of NoV GI.5 and GII.20 by C Frydman, S Miño, NG Iglesias, JM Carballeda, M Simari, MB Pisano, MJ Dus Santos, M Mozgovoj

“…The objective of our study was to investigate the presence of viruses associated with diarrhea and hepatitis: Hepatitis A virus (HAV), Hepatitis E virus (HEV), Norovirus GI (NoV GI), Norovirus GII (NoV GII), and Rotavirus (RV) by RT-real time PCR, in untreated wastewater samples (n=100) collected in the period July 2020 to August 2021 from two low-income neighborhoods in the district of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. …”
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Prevalence of Paslahepevirus balayani in commercial swine food products from Spain by Pedro López-López, María A. Risalde, María Casares-Jiménez, Javier Caballero-Gómez, Andrés Martín-Gómez, Javier Martínez-Blasco, Irene Agulló-Ros, Mario Frías, Ignacio García-Bocanegra, José C. Gómez-Villamandos, Antonio Rivero, Antonio Rivero-Juárez

“…Paslahepevirus balayani (formerly known as hepatitis E virus) is an emerging cause of foodborne disease in Europe, transmitted mainly by the consumption of raw or undercooked pork. …”
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Seroprevalence of AIH-related autoantibodies in patients with acute hepatitis E viral infection: a prospective case–control study in China by Jian Wu, Naizhou Guo, Lifei Zhu, Xueyan Zhang, Cunquan Xiong, Jun Liu, Yanping Xu, Jun Fan, Jiong Yu, Qiaoling Pan, Jinfeng Yang, Hanying Liang, Xiuyuan Jin, Sunyi Ye, Wei Wang, Chengyuan Liu, Jinrong Zhang, Gongqi Li, Bin Jiang, Hongcui Cao, Lanjuan Li

“…In this study, we investigated whether acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is associated with the seroprevalence of AIH-related autoantibodies and assessed their impact on the disease characteristics. …”
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In-Host HEV Quasispecies Evolution Shows the Limits of Mutagenic Antiviral Treatments by Sergi Colomer-Castell, Josep Gregori, Damir Garcia-Cehic, Mar Riveiro-Barciela, Maria Buti, Ariadna Rando-Segura, Judit Vico-Romero, Carolina Campos, Marta Ibañez-Lligoña, Caroline Melanie Adombi, Maria Francesca Cortese, David Tabernero, Juan Ignacio Esteban, Francisco Rodriguez-Frias, Josep Quer

“…Here, we report the in-host hepatitis E virus (HEV) quasispecies evolution in a chronically infected patient who was treated with three different regimens of ribavirin (RBV) for nearly 6 years. …”
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Bastroviruses (<i>Astroviridae</i>): genetic diversity and potential impact on human and animal health by German V. Roev, Nadezhda I. Borisova, Nadezhda V. Chistyakova, Anastasia V. Vyhodtseva, Vasiliy G. Akimkin, Kamil F. Khafizov

“…Bastroviruses were discovered in the Netherlands in 2016 in human stool samples and show partial genetic similarities to astroviruses and hepatitis E viruses. Their association with disease onset has not yet been established. …”
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Development of virus-like particles with inbuilt immunostimulatory properties as vaccine candidates by Simon Collett, Linda Earnest, Julio Carrera Montoya, Melissa A. Edeling, Ashley Yap, Chinn Yi Wong, Dale Christiansen, Jason Roberts, Jason Roberts, Jamie Mumford, Valerie Lecouturier, Vincent Pavot, Sergio Marco, Joon Keit Loi, Cameron Simmons, Shivali A. Gulab, Shivali A. Gulab, Jason M. Mackenzie, Aaron Elbourne, Paul A. Ramsland, Paul A. Ramsland, Paul A. Ramsland, Garth Cameron, Dhiraj Hans, Dale I. Godfrey, Joseph Torresi

“…The development of virus-like particle (VLP) based vaccines for human papillomavirus, hepatitis B and hepatitis E viruses represented a breakthrough in vaccine development. …”
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