Article
Genetic and experimental evidence for cross-species infection by swine hepatitis E virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1998
Meng X J, Halbur P G, Shapiro M S, Govindarajan S, Bruna J D, Mushahwar I K, Purcell R H, Emerson S U
Abstract excerpt
Prior to the recent discovery of the swine hepatitis E virus (swine HEV) in pigs from the midwestern United States, HEV was not considered endemic to this country. Since swine HEV is antigenically and genetically related to human strains of HEV, it was important to characterize this new virus fur...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Genome, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepatitis E
- Hepatitis E virus
- Hepatitis, Viral, Animal
- Humans
- Macaca mulatta
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Open Reading Frames
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Species Specificity
- Swine
- Swine Diseases
- United States
- Virulence
