Novel hepatitis E virus genotype in Norway rats, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1452-1455

  Johne, Reimar ^a   Heckel, Gerald ^b,c   Plenge Bönig, Anita ^d   Kindler, Eveline ^b   Maresch, Christina ^e   Reetz, Jochen ^a   Schielke, Anika ^a,f   Ulrich, Rainer G ^e  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d Dr Brill Partner GmbH Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology   (Germany)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RATS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77956032005     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100444     Document Type: Article

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