Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2010)

Hepatitis E Virus Genotype Diversity in Eastern China

  • Wen Zhang,
  • Yilin He,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Quan Shen,
  • Li Cui,
  • Xiaochun Wang,
  • Shihe Shao,
  • Xiu G. Hua

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1610.100873
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 10
pp. 1630 – 1632

Abstract

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We studied 47 hepatitis E virus (HEV) isolates from hospitalized patients in Nanjing and Taizhou, eastern China. Genotypes 1, 3, and 4 were prevalent; genotype 3 and subgenotype 4b showed a close relationship with the swine strains in eastern China, thus indicating that HEV genotype 3 had infected humans in China.

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