The serological prevalence and genetic diversity of hepatitis E virus in farmed rabbits in China

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 476-482

  Geng, Yansheng ^a,b   Zhao, Chenyan ^b   Song, Aijing ^b   Wang, Jinheng ^b   Zhang, Xiao ^b   Harrison, Tim J ^c   Zhou, Yan ^b   Wang, Wenbo ^b   Wang, Youchun ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTROL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS   (China)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal reservoirs; Anti HEV antibody; Genotypes; HEV antigen; RT PCR; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS E ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

AMPLICON; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREED DIFFERENCE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHINA; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79951956354     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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