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Volume 30, Number 4—April 2024
Research Letter

Detection of Rat Hepatitis E Virus in Pigs, Spain, 2023

Lucia Rios-Muñoz, Moisés Gonzálvez, Javier Caballero-Gomez, Sabrina Castro-Scholten, María Casares-Jimenez, Irene Agulló-Ros, Diana Corona-Mata, Ignacio García-Bocanegra, Pedro Lopez-Lopez, Tomás Fajardo, João R. Mesquita, María A. Risalde, Antonio Rivero-JuarezComments to Author , and Antonio Rivero

Author affiliations: Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain (L. Rios-Muñoz, M. Gonzálvez, J. Caballero-Gomez, S. Castro-Scholten, I. Agulló-Ros, I. García-Bocanegra, T. Fajardo, M.A. Risalde); Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (L. Rios-Muñoz, J. Caballero-Gomez, M. Casares-Jimenez, D. Corona-Mata, P. Lopez-Lopez, A. Rivero-Juarez, A. Rivero); Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain (L. Rios-Muñoz, J. Caballero-Gomez, M. Casares-Jimenez, D. Corona-Mata, P. Lopez-Lopez, A. Rivero-Juarez); Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain (M. Gonzálvez); Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (J. Caballero-Gomez, M. Casares-Jimenez, D. Corona-Mata, I. García-Bocanegra, P. Lopez-Lopez, M.A. Risalde, A. Rivero-Juarez, A. Rivero); Universidade do Porto and Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional, Porto, Portugal (J.R. Mesquita)

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Table

Demographic data of pigs and characteristics of farms in a study of detection of rat HEV in pigs, Spain, 2023*

Characteristics No. (%), n = 387
Age range
Adult 188 (48.6)
Subadult 169 (43.7)
Unknown
 30 (7.8)
Breed
Iberian 159 (41.1)
White 148 (38.2)
Iberian cross
 80 (20.7)
Aptitude
Reproductive 188 (48.6)
Fattening
 199 (51.4)
Farm HEV status
Rat HEV–positive 44 (11.4)
HEV-positive 6 (1.6)

*HEV, hepatitis E virus.

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