| Literature DB >> 11413380 |
Yamina Kabrane-Lazizi1, Mingdong Zhang1, Robert H Purcell1, Kirk D Miller1, Richard T Davey2, Suzanne U Emerson1.
Abstract
A unique hepatitis E virus (HEV) strain was identified as the aetiological agent of acute hepatitis in a United States (US) patient who had recently returned from vacation in Thailand, a country in which HEV is endemic. Sequence comparison showed that this HEV strain was most similar, but not identical, to the swine and human HEV strains recovered in the US. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that this new HEV isolate was closer to genotype 3 strains than to the genotype 1 strains common in Asia. The fact that this HEV was closely related to strains recovered in countries where HEV is not endemic and was highly divergent from Asian HEV strains raises the questions of where the patient's infection was acquired and of whether strains are geographically as localized as once thought.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11413380 DOI： 10.1099/0022-1317-82-7-1687
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gen Virol ISSN： 0022-1317 Impact factor: 3.891