Volume 17, Number 11—November 2011
Dispatch
Hepatitis E Virus in Rabbits, Virginia, USA
Caitlin M. Cossaboom, Laura Córdoba, Barbara A. Dryman, and Xiang-Jin Meng
Table 1
HEV in rabbits from 2 farms in Virginia, USA*
| Farm | No. rabbits tested | Mean age, mo | No. (%) positive for antibodies against HEV |
No. (%) positive for HEV RNA
|
No. (%) exposed to HEV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serum | Feces | |||||
| A | 25 | 7.0 | 13 (52.0) | 12 (48.0) | 10 (40.0) | 20 (80.0) |
| B | 60 | 10.8 | 18 (30.0) | 2 (3.3) | 3 (5.0) | 22 (36.7) |
| Total | 85 | 9.7 | 31 (36.5) | 14 (16.5) | 13 (15.3) | 42 (49.4) |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus.
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