Rat hepatitis E virus: Geographical clustering within Germany and serological detection in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 947-956

  Johne, Reimar ^a   Dremsek, Paul ^b   Kindler, Eveline ^c   Schielke, Anika ^a,d   Plenge Bönig, Anita ^e   Gregersen, Henrike ^f   Wessels, Ute ^b   Schmidt, Katja ^b   Rietschel, Wolfram ^f   Groschup, Martin H ^b   Guenther, Sebastian ^g   Heckel, Gerald ^h,i   Ulrich, Rainer G ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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

^f Wilhelma Zoologisch Botanischer Garten Stuttgart   (Germany)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Phylogeny; Rattus norvegicus; RT PCR; Serology

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GERMANY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD NORWAY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CAPSID PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GERMANY; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; LIVER; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLEURAL CAVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERVIDAE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MIRIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84860369627     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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