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Proposal for a new subtype of the zoonotic genotype 3 Hepatitis E virus: HEV-3l.
Virus research - 15 Mar 2018
De Sabato Luca, Lemey Philippe, Vrancken Bram, Bonfanti Lebana, Ceglie Letizia, Vaccari Gabriele, Di Bartolo Ilaria
Abstract excerpt
The near-complete genomic sequences of two hepatitis E virus (HEV) strains, detected from feces of infected pigs, were obtained. Phylogenetic analysis and p-distance comparisons of the complete coding regions showed a close relationship to the French swine strain FR-SHEV3c-like detected in 2006 (p-distance value 0.101), belonging to HEV-3 but not assigned to any known subtype. The three HEV sequences showed,...
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