Bats worldwide carry hepatitis E virus-related viruses that form a putative novel genus within the family Hepeviridae

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9134-9147

  Drexler, Jan Felix ^a   Seelen, Annika ^a   Corman, Victor Max ^a   Tateno, Adriana Fumie ^a   Cottontail, Veronika ^b   Zerbinati, Rodrigo Melim ^a   Gloza Rausch, Florian ^a,c   Klose, Stefan M ^a,b   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^d   Oppong, Samuel K ^d   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^e   Osterman, Andreas ^f   Rasche, Andrea ^g   Adam, Alexander ^h   Müller, Marcel A ^a   Ulrich, Rainer G ⁱ   Leroy, Eric M ^j   Lukashev, Alexander N ^k   Drosten, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Noctalis   (Germany)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

ⁱ FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^j CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^k CHUMAKOV INSTITUTE OF POLIOMYELITIS AND VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN HEPEVIRUS; BAT HEPEVIRUS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPEVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HEPEVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT HEPEVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ANIMALS; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHIROPTERA; EUROPE; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPEVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERVIDAE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPEVIRIDAE; HEPEVIRUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84866174665     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00800-12     Document Type: Article

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