Akpoigbe Kesiena, Culpepper-Morgan Joan, Akpoigbe Okeoghene, Santogade Peter
Division of Gastroenterology, Columbia University Medical Center, Health + Hospitals/Harlem Affiliation, New York, NY.
ACG Case Rep J. 2023 Jun 28;10(6):e01068. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000001068. eCollection 2023 Jun.
Acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in the United States of America (U.S.A) is low. However, seroprevalence rate is about of 6%. Most cases of HEV infection have been reported from travelers from endemic countries with poor sanitary conditions. Evidence of HEV as a zoonotic infection has been reported from developed countries from swine and wild animals including boar and deer. There is no reported case of direct transmission from wild game to humans in the U.S.A. We report a case of HEV from butchering of deer meat.
在美国,戊型肝炎病毒(HEV)的急性感染率较低。然而,血清流行率约为6%。大多数戊型肝炎病毒感染病例报告来自卫生条件差的流行国家的旅行者。在包括野猪和鹿在内的发达国家,已有证据表明戊型肝炎病毒可通过猪和野生动物发生人畜共患感染。在美国,没有野生猎物直接传播给人类的病例报告。我们报告了一例因屠宰鹿肉而感染戊型肝炎病毒的病例。