Hepatitis E virus strains in rabbits and evidence of a closely related strain in humans, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1274-1281

  Izopet, Jacques ^a,b,c   Dubois, Martine ^a,c   Bertagnoli, Stéphane ^d   Lhomme, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Marchandeau, Stéphane ^e   Boucher, Samuel ^f   Kamar, Nassim ^a,b,c   Abravanel, Florence ^a,b,c   Guérin, Jean Luc ^d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BILE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84864476580     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.120057     Document Type: Article

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