| Literature DB >> 20927637 |
Hongyan Xia1, Niklas Wahlberg, Sándor Belák, X J Meng, Lihong Liu.
Abstract
To investigate whether there is any phylogenetic evidence to support the hypothesis that swine is the natural host of HEV genotypes 3 and 4, Bayesian analysis of 80 full-length genomic sequences of HEV was performed. The results showed that the strains of genotypes 3 and 4 from swine are paraphyletic with regard to strains of human origin, which are thus phylogenetically nested among the swine strains. Recognition of HEV genotypes 3 and 4 as viruses from swine or swine HEV can provide an evolutionary explanation to the observation of cross-species infection by genotypes 3 and 4 HEV.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20927637 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0818-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Virol ISSN: 0304-8608 Impact factor: 2.574