Identification of a genotype III swine hepatitis E virus that was isolated from a Japanese pig born in 1990 and that is most closely related to Japanese isolates of human hepatitis E virus [1]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1342-1343

  Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SWINE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUS SCROFA; SWINE HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 0037335649     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1342-1343.2003     Document Type: Letter

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