Hepatitis E Virus Transmission from Wild Boar Meat
Tian-Cheng Li*, Katsumi Chijiwa†, Nobuyuki Sera†, Tetsuya Ishibashi†, Yoshiki Etoh†, Yuji Shinohara‡, Yasuo Kurata‡, Miki Ishida§, Shigeru Sakamoto¶, Naokazu Takeda*, and Tatsuo Miyamura*
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; †Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan; ‡Tagawa Health, Welfare, and Environment Office, Fukuoka, Japan; §Fukuoka Prefectual Government, Fukuoka, Japan; ¶Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
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Figure. Phylogenetic tree of hepatitis E virus (HEV) reconstructed with avian HEV as an outgroup. Nucleotide sequences of the entire open reading frame 2 were analyzed by the neighbor-joining method. The bootstrap values correspond to 1,000 replications. The 2 nucleotide sequences characterized in this study are shown in bold. The horizontal scale bar at the top left indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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