Metachronous occurrence of two cases of acute hepatitis E after eating raw pig liver and heart at the same restaurant at Gifu city in Japan

Shogo Shimizu; Junichi Sugihara; Yusuke Suzuki; Yoichi Nishigaki; Masaharu Takahashi; Kazuaki Takahashi; Tatsunori Nakano; Hideki Hayashi; Tomohiro Kato; Eiichi Tomita; Masahiro Arai; Hiroaki Okamoto

doi:10.2957/kanzo.56.617

Metachronous occurrence of two cases of acute hepatitis E after eating raw pig liver and heart at the same restaurant at Gifu city in Japan

Shogo Shimizu, Junichi Sugihara, Yusuke Suzuki, Yoichi Nishigaki, Masaharu Takahashi, Kazuaki Takahashi, Tatsunori Nakano, Hideki Hayashi, Tomohiro Kato, Eiichi Tomita, Masahiro Arai, Hiroaki Okamoto

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In Gifu city, Japan, an acute hepatitis E case occurred in 2012 (previously reported in Kanzo 55: 713-716, 2014) and another hepatitis E case occurred in 2014. Both cases developed hepatitis E after eating raw pig liver and heart at the same restaurant. The patients had no other clear risk factors for hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection. The two HEV strains were totally different, suggesting that the pig farms which provided the pig products were contaminated by different HEV strains. Japanese government issued an order forbidding restaurants to serve raw pig offal in June 2015. However, the sources and the routes of HEV infection remain unknown in most hepatitis E cases in Japan. We must still be cautious for HEV infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	617-620
Number of pages	4
Journal	Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica
Volume	56
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2957/kanzo.56.617
Publication status	Published - 04-12-2015

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Shimizu, S., Sugihara, J., Suzuki, Y., Nishigaki, Y., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, K., Nakano, T., Hayashi, H., Kato, T., Tomita, E., Arai, M., & Okamoto, H. (2015). Metachronous occurrence of two cases of acute hepatitis E after eating raw pig liver and heart at the same restaurant at Gifu city in Japan. Kanzo/Acta Hepatologica Japonica, 56(11), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.2957/kanzo.56.617

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