Article
Rat hepatitis E virus (HEV) cross-species infection and transmission in pigs
2023-07-06
Abstract excerpt
Rocahepevirus ratti, an emerging hepatitis E virus (HEV), has recently been found to be infectious to humans. Rats are a primary reservoir of the virus; thus, it is referred to as “rat HEV”. Rats are often found on swine farms in close contact with pigs. Our goal was to determine whether swine may serve as a transmission host for rat HEV by characterizing an infectious cDNA clone of a zoonotic rat HEV, strain LCK-...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c1a27650-4b88-5cc5-8314-5792f0efc4b0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.07.06.547957
