Abstract
The swine hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered to be a new zoonotic agent due to its close genomic resemblance to the human HEV and its ability to infect nonhuman primates. Hepatitis caused by HEV infection has been a serious public health problem in developing countries. However, recent seroprevalence studies indicate that the HEV also circulates in industrialized countries. Swine HEV is prevalent in pig populations and does not cause abnormal clinical symptoms in infected pigs, further implicating a likelihood of a risk of transmission to humans by normal contact In this study were collected 85 swine blood samples from seven localities of Boto?ani county. All de swine samples are from household system. From the 75 samples tested, seventeen were found positive for IgG anti-HEV, representing a prevalence of 22,66%. Also we tested 61 human serums for the presence of antibodies against hepatitis E virus and we detected 8 positive samples
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