The simultaneous occurrence of human norovirus and hepatitis E virus in a Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Archives of Virology

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1575-1578

  Wolf, Sandro ^a   Reetz, Jochen ^b   Johne, Reimar ^b   Heiberg, Ann Charlotte ^c   Petri, Samuel ^d   Kanig, Hanna ^a   Ulrich, Rainer G ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c AC Heiberg Rådgivning ^*  (Denmark)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COINFECTION; DENMARK; FECES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84879686136     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-013-1646-2     Document Type: Article

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