Identification of European-type hepatitis E virus subtype 3e isolates in Japanese wild boars: Molecular tracing of HEV from swine to wild boars

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 287-298

  Nakano, Tatsunori ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^b   Arai, Masahiro ^b   Okano, Hiroshi ^c   Kato, Hideaki ^d   Ayada, Minoru ^e   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^f   Mishiro, Shunji ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^c SUZUKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e Department of Hepato Gastroenterology   (Japan)

^f JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hepatitis E virus; Japan; Phylogenetic analysis; Subtype 3e; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SWINE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING; WILD BOAR;

BAYES FACTOR; BF; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEV; JAPAN; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MCMC; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; SUBTYPE 3E; TIME OF THE MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR; TMRCA; WILD BOAR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84879808502     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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