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Colon-derived Caco-2 cells support replication of hepatitis E virus genotype 1 strain Sar55 generated by reverse genetics.
Virus research - 1 Sept 2024
Falkenhagen Alexander, Panajotov Jessica, Johne Reimar
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is infecting over 20 million people annually with a high morbidity especially in pregnant women and immune-suppressed individuals. While HEV genotype 1 (HEV-1) infects only humans, genotype 3 (HEV-3) is zoonotic and commonly transmitted from infected animals to humans. Whereas a few reverse genetics systems enabling targeted genome manipulations exist for HEV-3, those for HEV-1 are...
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