Identification of a novel variant of human hepatitis E virus in Hungary.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
Year 2006
First human case of hepatitis E infection detected in Hungary is reported. This hepatitis E virus (HEV), Hungary1, belongs to genotype 3 and had 95% and 90% nucleotide identity within the capsid region of the European swine and human (Greece2) strains, respectively. Hungary1 represents a potential novel human variant of HEV in genus Hepevirus.
Epistemonikos ID: 80aa6b5c0a6fc2f6d1ce6a38825b2dc242305664
First added on: Sep 20, 2024