| hepatitis e virus infection in farmed rabbits and swine in the eastern chinese city lianyungang: showing no potential interspecies transmission. | rabbit hev isolated recently from farmed rabbits in china has been shown experimentally to be able to infect both cynomolgus macaques and pigs. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which cross-species transmission of rabbit hev in farm settings is a significant factor in the spread of this zoonotic infection. rabbit and swine feces were collected from the same area in eastern china (lianyungang city) and analyzed by rt-pcr. partial genome sequencing of a 365 bp regio ... | 2014 | 25069969 |