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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a common cause of acute hepatitis worldwide. In Europe, HEV is a zoonosis transmitted via contaminated pork meat or other pork food products. Genotype 3 is the most prevalent HEV type in the animal reservoir, as well as in humans. Despite an increased incidence of hepatitis E across Europe, much remains unknown about its spread, sources and transmission routes. A One Health approach is crucial to better understand the (molecular) epidemiology of HEV. HEVnet was established in April 2017 as a network and database for sharing sequences and accompanying metadata collected from human, animal, food and environmental sources. HEVnet members working in the public health, veterinary health, food, environmental and blood safety sectors have submitted 1,615 HEV sequences from nine countries as at January 2019. Most are from humans (89%), and sequences of animal (5%), food (6%) or environmental (0.3%) origin are rare. Metadata for human sequences capture mostly sex (93%), year of birth (92%) and sampling (100%); data on region of sampling (37%) and clinical information (hospitalisation 27%, symptoms 20% or mortality 8%) are limited. HEVnet aims to expand into a global network capable of performing cross-sectoral and supranational studies, with a joint repository of molecular and epidemiological data on HEV.

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HEVnet: a One Health, collaborative, interdisciplinary network and sequence data repository for enhanced hepatitis E virus molecular typing, characterisation and epidemiological investigations
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Annemieke+Christine+Mulder&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Mulder Annemieke Christine</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Annelies+Kroneman&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kroneman Annelies</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Eelco+Franz&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Franz Eelco</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Harry+Vennema&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Vennema Harry</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Anna+D.+Tulen&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Tulen Anna D.</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Johanna+Takkinen&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Takkinen Johanna</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Agnetha+Hofhuis&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Hofhuis Agnetha</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Cornelia+Adlhoch&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Adlhoch Cornelia</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Members+of+HEVnet&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Members of HEVnet</a></span>. HEVnet: a One Health, collaborative, interdisciplinary network and sequence data repository for enhanced hepatitis E virus molecular typing, characterisation and epidemiological investigations. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2019;24(10):pii=1800407. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1800407" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1800407</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 24 Jul 2018;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 08 Feb 2019 </span> </p>
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