Indian hepatitis E virus shows a major deletion in the small open reading frame.

doi:10.1016/0042-6822(92)90716-3

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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

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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 segme...

Topics

Antibody Formation
Base Sequence
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Genes, Viral
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E virus
Humans
India
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Myanmar
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reading Frames
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Viral Structural Proteins

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