Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia.
Centre for Invasive Species Solutions, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia.
Aust Vet J. 2021 Aug;99(8):356-358. doi: 10.1111/avj.13073. Epub 2021 Apr 26.
We report the first detection of hepatitis E virus in rabbits in Australia. While conducting metatranscriptomic sequencing of liver samples collected from domestic rabbits that had died, we detected hepatitis E virus in three samples. Two viral genome sequences were obtained, which shared 96% nucleotide identity and clustered with hepatitis E strains isolated from rabbits and humans in Europe. This raises a potential public health risk in Australia, as the abundance of wild rabbits and the increasing popularity of domestic rabbits as pets represent a substantial human/rabbit interface to allow for potential zoonotic infections to occur.
我们在澳大利亚首次检测到了兔子携带的戊型肝炎病毒。在对从死亡的家养兔子肝脏样本进行的宏转录组测序过程中，我们在三个样本中检测到了戊型肝炎病毒。我们获得了两个病毒基因组序列，它们的核苷酸同一性为 96%，并与从欧洲的兔子和人类中分离到的戊型肝炎病毒株聚类在一起。这在澳大利亚引发了潜在的公共卫生风险，因为野生兔子的数量众多，以及家养兔子作为宠物越来越受欢迎，这为可能的人畜共患感染提供了大量的人与兔子接触的机会。
