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Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 in wild rats, United States.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2012
Lack Justin B, Volk Kylie, Van Den Bussche Ronald A
Abstract excerpt
The role of rodents in the epidemiology of zoonotic hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been a subject of considerable debate. Seroprevalence studies suggest widespread HEV infection in commensal Rattus spp. rats, but experimental transmission has been largely unsuccessful and recovery of zoonotic genotype 3 HEV RNA from wild Rattus spp. rats has never been confirmed. We surveyed R. rattus and R. norvegicus...
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