| rat hepatitis e virus: geographical clustering within germany and serological detection in wild norway rats (rattus norvegicus). | zoonotic hepatitis e virus (hev) infection in industrialised countries is thought to be caused by transmission from wild boar, domestic pig and deer as reservoir hosts. the detection of hev-specific antibodies in rats and other rodents has suggested that these animals may represent an additional source for hev transmission to human. recently, a novel hev (rathev) was detected in norway rats from hamburg, germany, showing the typical genome organisation but a high nucleotide and amino acid sequen ... | 2012 | 22554648 |