Swine and rabbits are the main reservoirs of hepatitis E virus in China: detection of HEV RNA in feces of farmed and wild animals

Archives of Virology

Volumn 160, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2791-2798

  Xia, Junke ^a   Zeng, Hang ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Zhang, Yulin ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Geng, Jiabao ^b   Wang, Lin ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Zhuang, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b The 81st Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FECES; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PIG; RABBIT; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHINA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FECES; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; RNA, VIRAL; SWINE;

EID: 84946493705     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-015-2574-0     Document Type: Article

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