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Hepatitis E Virus in Farmed Rabbits, Wild Rabbits and Petting Farm Rabbits in the Netherlands.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Sept 2016
Burt Sara A, Veltman Jorg, Hakze-van der Honing Renate, Schmitt Heike, van der Poel Wim H M
Abstract excerpt
Rabbits have been suggested as a zoonotic source of Hepatitis E virus. Phylogenetic analysis of HEV isolates from farmed, wild and pet rabbits in the Netherlands (0, 60, and 23 % respectively) showed them to be grouped amongst published rabbit HEV sequences and distinct from most human isolates. Dutch rabbits are unlikely to be a zoonotic source.
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