Full-genome nucleotide sequence and analysis of a Chinese swine hepatitis E virus isolate of genotype 4 identified in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region: Evidence of zoonotic risk from swine to human in South China

Liver International

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1230-1240

  Li, Lingjun ^a   Zhu, Yonghong ^a   Fu, Hongwei ^a   Wei, Xianfei ^b   Wang, Ling ^a   Liang, Jingrui ^a   Ji, Yanli ^a   Tang, Ronglan ^b   Zhuang, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b Liuzhou Medical College   (China)

Author keywords

Full genome; Genotype; Hepatitis E virus; South China; Swine; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWINE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; ZOONOSIS; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHINA; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 70350070541     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2009.02012.x     Document Type: Article

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