| detection of hepatitis e virus rna in rats caught in pig farms from northern italy. | hepatitis e virus (hev) strains belonging to the orthohepevirus genus are divided into four species (a-d). hev strains included in the orthohepevirus a species infect humans and several other mammals. among them, the hev-3 and hev-4 genotypes are zoonotic and infect both humans and animals, of which, pigs and wild boar are the main reservoirs. viruses belonging to the orthohepevirus c species (hev-c) have been considered to infect rats of different species and carnivores. recently, two studies r ... | 2020 | 31592576 |
| detection of rat hepatitis e virus, but not human pathogenic hepatitis e virus genotype 1-4 infections in wild rats from lithuania. | rat hepatitis e virus (hev) is an orthohepevirus which is related to other hev found in humans and other mammals. it was first identified in norway rats (rattus norvegicus) from germany in 2010, and later it has been detected in black rats (rattus rattus) and norway rats from usa, china, indonesia, vietnam and many european countries. in this study, we describe molecular and serological investigations of black and norway rats trapped in lithuania, eastern europe, for infections with rat hev and ... | 2018 | 29981698 |