Transmission of a novel genotype of hepatitis E virus from Bactrian camels to cynomolgus macaques

Journal of Virology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2019, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a   Teng, Jade L L ^b   Lau, Susanna K P ^b,c   Sridhar, Siddharth ^b   Fu, Hongwei ^d   Gong, Wanyun ^a   Li, Manyu ^a   Xu, Qieshi ^a   He, Yunye ^a   Zhuang, Hui ^a   Woo, Patrick C Y ^b,c   Wang, Ling ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bactrian camel; Chronic infection; Cross species transmission; Hepatitis E virus; Zoonotic infections

Indexed keywords

ORF2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTRIAN CAMEL; CAMEL MILK; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CAMEL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CHINA; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85063631215     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02014-18     Document Type: Article

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