Swine hepatitis E virus strains in Japan form four phylogenetic clusters comparable with those of Japanese isolates of human hepatitis E virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 851-862

  Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^a   Miyajima, Haruko ^b   Gotanda, Yuhko ^b   Lita, Teruhiko ^c   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c Ibaraki Prefectural Livestock Research Center   (Japan)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PIG FARMING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 0037384831     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18918-0     Document Type: Review

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