Analysis of the full-length genome of hepatitis E virus isolates obtained from wild boars in Japan

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3321-3326

  Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Endo, Kazunori ^a   Fujiwara, Shinji ^b   Sakuma, Nobuo ^c   Kawazuma, Fumiaki ^d   Sakamoto, Hirotsugu ^e   Sato, Yukihiro ^f   Bando, Masashi ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Koyadairamura Kokuho Clinic   (Japan)

^c Kawakamimura Kokuho Clinic   (Japan)

^d Yodakubo Hospital   (Japan)

^e Kitaibaraki Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

^f Kamiichi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD BOAR;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUS SCROFA; SWINE DISEASES;

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

EID: 28044454759     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81394-0     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Chandler, J. D., Riddell, M. A., Li, F., Love, R. J. & Anderson, D. A. (1999). Serological evidence for swine hepatitis E virus infection in Australian pig herds. Vet Microbiol 68, 95-105.
2. Erker, J. C., Desai, S. M., Schlauder, G. G., Dawson, G. J. & Mushahwar, I. K. (1999). A hepatitis E virus variant from the United States: molecular characterization and transmission in cynomolgus macaques. J Gen Virol 80, 681-690.
3. Felsenstein, J. (1985). Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39, 783-791.
4. Garkavenko, O., Obriadina, A., Meng, J., Anderson, D. A., Benard, H. J., Schroeder, B. A., Khudyakov, Y. E, Fields, H. A. & Croxson, M. C. (2001). Detection and characterization of swine hepatitis E virus in New Zealand. J Med Virol 65, 525-529.
5. Harrison, T. J. (1999). Hepatitis E virus - an update. Liver 19, 171-176.
6. Hsieh, S.-Y., Meng, X.-J., Wu, Y.-H., Liu, S.-T., Tam, A. W., Lin, D.-Y. & Liaw, Y.-F. (1999). Identity of a novel swine hepatitis E virus in Taiwan forming a monophyletic group with Taiwan isolates of human hepatitis E virus. J Clin Microbiol 37, 3828-3834.
7. Huang, F. F., Haqshenas, G., Guenette, D. K., Halbur, P. G., Schommer, S. K., Pierson, F. W., Toth, T. E. & Meng, X. J. (2002). Detection by reverse transcription-PCR and genetic characterization of field isolates of swine hepatitis E virus from pigs in different geographic regions of the United States. J Clin Microbiol 40, 1326-1332.
8. Huang, F. F., Sun, Z. F., Emerson, S. U., Purcell, R. H., Shivaprasad, H. L., Pierson, F. W., Toth, T. E & Meng, X. J. (2004). Determination and analysis of the complete genomic sequence of avian hepatitis E virus (avian HEV) and attempts to infect rhesus monkeys with avian HEV. J Gen Virol 85, 1609-1618.
9. Kwok, S. & Higuchi, R. (1989). Avoiding false positives with PCR. Nature 339, 237-238.
10. Matsuda, H., Okada, K., Takahashi, K. & Mishiro, S. (2003). Severe hepatitis E virus infection after ingestion of uncooked liver from a wild boar. J Infect Dis 188, 944.
11. Meng, X.-J. (2000). Novel strains of hepatitis E virus identified from humans and other animal species: is hepatitis E a zoonosis? J Hepatol 33, 842-845.
12. Meng, X.-J. (2003). Swine hepatitis E virus: cross-species infection and risk in xenotransplantation. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 278, 185-216.
13. Meng, X.-J., Purcell, R. H., Halbur, P. G., Lehman, J. R., Webb, D. M., Tsareva, T. S., Haynes, J. S., Thacker, B. J. & Emerson, S. U. (1997). A novel virus in swine is closely related to the human hepatitis E virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94, 9860-9865.
14. Meng, X.-J., Halbur, P. G., Shapiro, M. S., Govindarajan, S., Bruna, J. D., Mushahwar, I. K., Purcell, R. H. & Emerson, S. U. (1998). Genetic and experimental evidence for cross-species infection by swine hepatitis E virus. J Virol 72, 9714-9721.
15. Mizuo, H., Suzuki, K., Takikawa, Y. & 8 other authors (2002). Polyphyletic strains of hepatitis E virus are responsible for sporadic cases of acute hepatitis in Japan. J Clin Microbiol 40, 3209-3218.
16. Nishizawa, T., Takahashi, M., Mizuo, H., Miyajima, H., Gotanda, Y. & Okamoto, H. (2003). Characterization of Japanese swine and human hepatitis E virus isolates of genotype IV with 99% identity over the entire genome. J Gen Virol 84, 1245-1251.
17. Okamoto, H., Nishizawa, T., Tawara, A., Takahashi, M., Kishimoto, J., Sai, T. & Sugai, Y. (2000). TT virus mRNAs detected in the bone marrow cells from an infected individual. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 279, 700-707.
18. Okamoto, H., Takahashi, M., Nishizawa, T., Fukai, K., Muramatsu, U. & Yoshikawa, A. (2001). Analysis of the complete genome of indigenous swine hepatitis E virus isolated in Japan. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 289, 929-936.
19. Pina, S., Buti, M., Cotrina, M., Piella, J. & Girones, R. (2000). HEV identified in serum from humans with acute hepatitis and in sewage of animal origin in Spain. J Hepatol 33, 826-833.
20. Purcell, R. H. & Emerson, S. U. (2001). Hepatitis E virus. In Fields Virology, 4th edn, pp. 3051-3061. Edited by D. M. Knipe, P. M. Howley, D. E. Griffin, R. A. Lamb, M. A. Martin, B. Roizman & S. E. Straus. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
21. Saitou, N. & Nei, M. (1987). The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4, 406-425.
22. Schlauder, G. G. & Mushahwar, I. K. (2001). Genetic heterogeneity of hepatitis E virus. J Med Virol 65, 282-292.
23. Smith, J. L. (2001). A review of hepatitis E virus. J Food Prot 64, 572-586.
24. Sonoda, H., Abe, M., Sugimoto, T. & 7 other authors (2004). Prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in wild boars and deer and genetic identification of a genotype 3 HEV from a boar in Japan. J Clin Microbiol 42, 5371-5374.
25. Takahashi, M., Nishizawa, T., Miyajima, H., Gotanda, Y., Iita, T., Tsuda, F. & Okamoto, H. (2003). Swine hepatitis E virus strains in Japan form four phylogenetic clusters comparable with those of Japanese isolates of human hepatitis E virus. J Gen Virol 84, 851-862.
26. Takahashi, K., Kitajima, N., Abe, N. & Mishiro, S. (2004). Complete or near-complete nucleotide sequences of hepatitis E virus genome recovered from a wild boar, a deer, and four patients who ate the deer. Virology 330, 501-505.
27. Takahashi, M., Nishizawa, T., Tanaka, T., Tsatsralt-Od, B., Inoue, J. & Okamoto, H. (2005). Correlation between positivity for immunoglobulin A antibodies and viraemia of swine hepatitis E virus observed among farm pigs in Japan. J Gen Virol 86, 1807-1813.
28. Tam, A. W., Smith, M. M., Guerra, M. E., Huang, C.-C., Bradley, D. W., Fry, K. E. & Reyes, G. R. (1991). Hepatitis E virus (HEV): molecular cloning and sequencing of the full-length viral genome. Virology 185, 120-131.
29. Tamada, Y., Yano, K., Yatsuhashi, H., Inoue, O., Mawatari, F. & Ishibashi, H. (2004). Consumption of wild boar linked to cases of hepatitis E. J Hepatol 40, 869-873.
30. Tei, S., Kitajima, N., Takahashi, K. & Mishiro, S. (2003). Zoonotic transmission of hepatitis E virus from deer to human beings. Lancet 362, 371-373.
31. Tei, S., Kitajima, N., Ohara, S., Inoue, Y., Miki, M., Yamatani, T., Yamabe, H., Mishiro, S. & Kinoshita, Y. (2004). Consumption of uncooked deer meat as a risk factor for hepatitis E virus infection: an age- and sex-matched case-control study. J Med Virol 74, 67-70.
32. Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Ling, R., Li, H. & Harrison, T. J. (2000). The complete sequence of hepatitis E virus genotype 4 reveals an alternative strategy for translation of open reading frames 2 and 3. J Gen Virol 81, 1675-1686.
33. Wang, Y.-C., Zhang, H., Xia, N. & 11 other authors (2002). Prevalence, isolation, and partial sequence analysis of hepatitis E virus from domestic animals in China. J Med Virol 67, 516-521.
34. Wu, J.-C., Chen, C.-M., Chiang, T.-Y., Tsai, W.-H., Jeng, W.-J., Sheen, I.-J., Lin, C.-C. & Meng, X.-J. (2002). Spread of hepatitis E virus among different-aged pigs: two-year survey in Taiwan. J Med Virol 66, 488-492.
35. Yazaki, Y., Mizuo, H., Takahashi, M., Nishizawa, T., Sasaki, N., Gotanda, Y. & Okamoto, H. (2003). Sporadic acute or fulminant hepatitis E in Hokkaido, Japan, may be food-borne, as suggested by the presence of hepatitis E virus in pig liver as food. J Gen Virol 84, 2351-2357.