Asian musk shrew as a reservoir of rat hepatitis E virus, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1341-1343

  Guan, Dawei ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Su, Juan ^a   Fang, Ling ^a   Takeda, Naokazu ^b   Wakita, Takaji ^c   Li, Tian Cheng ^c   Ke, Changwen ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

CHINA; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHREW;

ASIAN HOUSE SHREW; ASIAN MUSK SHREW; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SORICIDAE; HEPEVIRIDAE; HEPEVIRUS; ORDER SORICOMORPHA; RAT; RAT HEPATITIS E VIRUS; RAT HEPEVIRUS; RESERVOIR; SUNCUS MURINUS; VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHREWS;

EID: 84880723529     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1908.130069     Document Type: Letter

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