High genomic similarity between European type hepatitis E virus subgenotype 3e strains isolated from an acute hepatitis patient and a wild boar in Mie, Japan

Hepatology Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 694-699

  Okano, Hiroshi ^a   Nakano, Tatsunori ^b   Sugimoto, Kazushi ^c   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^d   Nagashima, Shigeo ^e   Takahashi, Masaharu ^e   Arai, Masahiro ^d   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^e  

^a SUZUKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Japan; Nucleotide sequence; Subgenotype 3e; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OPEN READING FRAME 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 3E; HUMAN; JAPAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD BOAR;

EID: 84901920471     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hepr.12155     Document Type: Article

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