New hepatitis E virus genotype in camels, the Middle East

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1044-1048

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Teng, Jade L L ^b   Tsang, Alan K L ^b   Joseph, Marina ^c   Wong, Emily Y M ^b   Tang, Ying ^b   Sivakumar, Saritha ^c   Xie, Jun ^b   Bai, Ru ^b   Wernery, Renate ^c   Wernery, Ulrich ^c   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAMELS; DNA, VIRAL; FECES; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84901044376     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.140140     Document Type: Article

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