Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Research
Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 in Wild Rats, United States
Justin B. Lack
, Kylie Volk, and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche
, Kylie Volk, and Ronald A. Van Den BusscheTable
Rattus spp. rats tested for hepatitis E virus RNA*
| Location |
Species and sample size
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
| R. norvegicus | R. rattus | No. positive | |
| United States | |||
|
Aleutian Islands, Alaska |
18 | 7 | 6 |
|
San Francisco Bay Area, California |
19 | 112 | 12 |
|
Gainesville, Florida |
NA | 21 | 4 |
|
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
1 | NA | 1 |
|
Memphis, Tennessee |
16 | NA | 6 |
|
San Angelo, Texas |
2 | 11 | 2 |
|
Little Rock, Arkansas |
2 | 6 | 0 |
|
San Diego, California |
8 | 5 | 3 |
|
Panama City, Florida |
NA | 24 | 0 |
|
Key Largo, Florida |
NA | 5 | 0 |
|
Spencer, Indiana |
NA | 10 | 0 |
|
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
NA | 12 | 0 |
|
Prentiss, Mississippi |
NA | 1 | 0 |
|
Bernalillo, New Mexico |
2 | NA | 0 |
|
Union County, Pennsylvania |
40 | NA | 1 |
|
Corvallis, Oregon |
4 | NA | 0 |
|
Houston, Texas |
NA | 8 | 0 |
|
Austin, Texas |
NA | 14 | 0 |
|
Kerns, West Virginia |
1 | NA | 0 |
|
Seattle, Washington |
1 | 5 | 0 |
| Vietnam | NA | 18 | 0 |
| China | NA | 5 | 0 |
| Honduras | NA | 2 | 0 |
| Madagascar | NA | 5 | 0 |
| Mexico | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| Peru | NA | 16 | 0 |
| Russia | 30 | NA | 0 |
*NA, no samples were available.
