Hepatitis E virus infection in farmed rabbits and swine in the Eastern Chinese City Lianyungang: Showing no potential interspecies transmission

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1898-1904

  Han, Jian ^a   Zeng, Hang ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Xia, Junke ^a   Zhang, Yulin ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Zhuang, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Cross species transmission; Hepatitis E virus (HEV); Rabbit; Swine; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 4D; INTERSPECIES TRANSMISSION; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PIG; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE;

EID: 84908211286     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24003     Document Type: Article

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