Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Hepatitis E Virus Strains in Rabbits and Evidence of a Closely Related Strain in Humans, France

Jacques Izopet

, Martine Dubois, Stéphane Bertagnoli, Sébastien Lhomme, Stéphane Marchandeau, Samuel Boucher, Nassim Kamar, Florence Abravanel, and Jean-Luc Guérin

Author affiliations: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Toulouse, France (J. Izopet, M. Dubois, S. Lhomme, N. Kamar, F. Abravanel); Faculté de Médecine Toulouse-Purpan, Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse (J. Izopet, S. Lhomme, N. Kamar, F. Abravanel); Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse (J. Izopet, M. Dubois, S. Lhomme, N. Kamar, F. Abravanel); École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, Toulouse (S. Bertagnoli, J.-L. Guérin); Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Nantes, France (S. Marchandeau); and Labovet, Les Herbiers, France (S. Boucher )

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Phylogenetic tree based on full-length sequences of hepatitis E virus (HEV) rabbit strains (circles), the human strain TLS-18516 (triangles) and reference strains (diamonds). GenBank accession numbers are shown for each HEV strain used in the phylogenetic analysis. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. . . . Phylogenetic tree based on full-length sequences of hepatitis E virus (HEV) rabbit strains (circles), the human strain TLS-18516 (triangles) and reference strains (diamonds). GenBank accession numbers are shown for each HEV strain used in the phylogenetic analysis. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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