Cross-species infection of pigs with a novel rabbit, but not rat, strain of hepatitis E virus isolated in the United States

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1687-1695

  Cossaboom, Caitlin M ^a   Córdoba, Laura ^a   Sanford, Brenton J ^a   Piñeyro, Pablo ^a   Kenney, Scott P ^a   Dryman, Barbara A ^a   Wang, Youchun ^b   Meng, Xiang Jin ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR FOOD AND DRUG CONTROL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHINA; FECES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RABBITS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CERVIDAE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84864057718     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.041509-0     Document Type: Article

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