Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Research
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
, Martine Dubois, Stéphane Bertagnoli, Sébastien Lhomme, Stéphane Marchandeau, Samuel Boucher, Nassim Kamar, Florence Abravanel, and Jean-Luc GuérinTable 3
Detection of HEV RNA by real time RT-PCR in the 12 wild rabbits from warren W3 according to tissue sampled, France*
| Rabbit no. | Liver |
Intestine |
Cecum |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. positive | Mean viral load† | No. positive | Mean viral load† | No. positive | Mean viral load† | |||
| 1 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 2 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 3 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 4 | 3 | 7.3 | 3 | 5.3 | 2 | 3.4 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 3.7 | 1 | 3.1 | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 6 | 3 | 4.4 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 7 | 1 | 3.1 | 2 | 3.6 | 1 | 3.8 | ||
| 8 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 9 | 3 | 6.6 | 3 | 5.2 | 3 | 4.6 | ||
| 10 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 11 | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | 0 | <LOD | ||
| 12 | 3 | 3.7 | 2 | 3.6 | 1 | 3.8 | ||
*Three samples were obtained of each tissue type from each rabbit. HEV, hepatitis E virus; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; LOD, limit of detection.
†log copies/g.
