Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2013)

Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 4, Nanjing, China, 2001–2011

  • Xing Dai,
  • Chen Dong,
  • Zhenxian Zhou,
  • Jiuhong Liang,
  • Min Dong,
  • Yan Yang,
  • Jianguang Fu,
  • Hua Tian,
  • Song Wang,
  • Jie Fan,
  • Jihong Meng,
  • Michael A. Purdy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1909.130013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 9
pp. 1528 – 1530

Abstract

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During 2001–2011, hepatitis E virus (HEV) was found in the blood of patients in Nanjing, China. All HEV-positive patients had virus genotype 4; subgenotype 4a was predominant. The effective population of HEV in Nanjing increased in ≈1980 and continued until ≈2003 when it plateaued.

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