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First description of hepatitis E virus in Australian rabbits.
Australian veterinary journal - 1 Aug 2021
Jenckel M, Hall R N, Strive T
Abstract excerpt
We report the first detection of hepatitis E virus in rabbits in Australia. While conducting metatranscriptomic sequencing of liver samples collected from domestic rabbits that had died, we detected hepatitis E virus in three samples. Two viral genome sequences were obtained, which shared 96% nucleotide identity and clustered with hepatitis E strains isolated from rabbits and humans in Europe. This raises a...
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