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Risk of zoonotic transmission of HEV from rabbits.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Oct 2013
Lhomme Sébastien, Dubois Martine, Abravanel Florence, Top Sokunthea, Bertagnoli Stéphane, Guerin Jean-Luc, Izopet Jacques
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis E virus strains from rabbits indicate that these mammals may be a reservoir for HEVs that cause infection in humans. Further issues remain to be clarified, including whether the genotype of rabbit HEV differs from human and swine HEV genotype 3 and whether rabbit HEV can infect human and other animals. HEV was found in farmed rabbits in several geographic areas of China, in USA and more recently in...
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