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Identification of domestic cat hepadnavirus from a cat blood sample in Japan

2022-01-09

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The hepatitis B virus ( Hepadnaviridae ) induces chronic hepatitis and hepatic cancer in humans. A novel domestic cat hepadnavirus (DCH) was recently identified in several countries, however, the DCH infection status of cats in Japan is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the DCH infection rate of 139 cat samples collected in Japan. We identified one positive blood sample (0.78%) from a 17-year...

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ea187bb5-e73d-5788-8571-693faeaea76d
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10.1101/2022.01.09.475482
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