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Hepatitis E Virus Genotype Diversity in Eastern China

Wen Zhang, Yilin He, Hua Wang, Quan Shen, Li Cui, Xiaochun Wang, Shihe Shao, Xiuguo Hua

Emerging infectious diseases · 2010 · 55 citations · 11 references

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We studied 47 hepatitis E virus (HEV) isolates from hospitalized patients in Nanjing and Taizhou, eastern China. Genotypes 1, 3, and 4 were prevalent; genotype 3 and subgenotype 4b showed a close relationship with the swine strains in eastern China, thus indicating that HEV genotype 3 had infected humans in China.

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