Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep;16(9):1452-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1609.100444.
Human hepatitis E virus infections may be caused by zoonotic transmission of virus genotypes 3 and 4. To determine whether rodents are a reservoir, we analyzed the complete nucleotide sequence of a hepatitis E-like virus from 2 Norway rats in Germany. The sequence suggests a separate genotype for this hepatotropic virus.
人感染戊型肝炎病毒可能是由于病毒基因型 3 和 4 的动物源性传播引起的。为了确定啮齿动物是否是病毒的储存宿主,我们分析了来自德国的两只挪威鼠的戊型肝炎样病毒的完整核苷酸序列。该序列表明这种嗜肝病毒属于一个单独的基因型。