Ferret hepatitis E virus infection in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-62

  Li, Tian Cheng ^a   Yonemitsu, Kenzo ^b   Terada, Yutaka ^b   Takeda, Naokazu ^c   Takaji, Wakita ^a   Maeda, Ken ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALT; Ferret hepatitis E virus; Pathogenicity; Pet

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FERRET; HEPATITIS E; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPEN READING FRAME 1; OPEN READING FRAME 2; OPEN READING FRAME 3; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FECES; FEMALE; FERRETS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84921885423     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2014.169     Document Type: Article

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