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Indian hepatitis E virus shows a major deletion in the small open reading frame.
Virology - 1 Jul 1992
Ray R, Jameel S, Manivel V, Ray R
Abstract excerpt
Enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis virus (HEV), the causative agent for sporadic and large epidemic outbreaks in developing countries, contains a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The genome of the virus encodes three open reading frames (ORF1, ORF2, and ORF3). The gene segment corresponding to the small open reading frame (ORF3), overlapping between ORF1 and ORF2, was synthesized by reverse...
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