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Molecular characterization of a novel hepatitis E virus (HEV) strain obtained from a wild boar in Japan that is highly divergent from the previously recognized HEV strains.
Virus research - 13 Feb 2014
Takahashi Masaharu, Nishizawa Tsutomu, Nagashima Shigeo, Jirintai Suljid, Kawakami Manri, Sonoda Yoshihide, Suzuki Tadahiro, Yamamoto Shogo, Shigemoto Kazuhiro, Ashida Kozo, Sato Yukihiro, Okamoto Hiroaki
Abstract excerpt
Although a consensus classification system for hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotypes is currently unavailable, HEV variants (JBOAR135-Shiz09 and wbJOY_06) from wild boars (Sus scrofa leucomystax) have provisionally been classified into two novel genotypes (5 and 6). While performing a survey of HEV infections among 566 wild boars that were captured in Japan between January 2010 and August 2013, we found 24 boars...
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