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Elisabeth Nicand1, Gregory L Armstrong, Vincent Enouf, Jean Paul Guthmann, Jean-Philippe Guerin, Mélanie Caron, Jacques Yves Nizou, Roberta Andraghetti.
Abstract
The within-outbreak diversity of hepatitis E virus (HEV) was studied during the outbreak of hepatitis E that occurred in Sudan in 2004. Specimens were collected from internally displaced persons living in a Sudanese refugee camp and two camps implanted in Chad. A comparison of the sequences in the ORF2 region of 23 Sudanese isolates and five HEV samples from the two Chadian camps displayed a high similarity (>99.7%) to strains belonging to Genotype 1. But four isolates collected in one of the Chadian camps were close to Genotype 2. Circulation of divergent strains argues for possible multiple sources of infection. Copyright (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, inc.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16254969 DOI： 10.1002/jmv.20487
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Virol ISSN： 0146-6615 Impact factor: 2.327