Hepatitis E Virus in Farmed Rabbits, Wild Rabbits and Petting Farm Rabbits in the Netherlands

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 227-229

  Burt, Sara A ^a   Veltman, Jorg ^a   Hakze van der Honing, Renate ^b   Schmitt, Heike ^a   van der Poel, Wim H M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E; HEV; Rabbits; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUTCH BELTED (RABBIT); FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RABBITS AND HARES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NETHERLANDS; PETS; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS;

EID: 84965072138     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-016-9239-3     Document Type: Article

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