TY - JOUR AU - Johne, Reimar AU - Heckel, Gerald AU - Plenge-Bönig, Anita AU - Kindler, Eveline AU - Maresch, Christina AU - Reetz, Jochen AU - Schielke, Anika AU - Ulrich, Rainer G. T1 - Novel Hepatitis E Virus Genotype in Norway Rats, Germany T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 9 SP - 1452 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Human hepatitis E virus infections may be caused by zoonotic transmission of virus genotypes 3 and 4. To determine whether rodents are a reservoir, we analyzed the complete nucleotide sequence of a hepatitis E–like virus from 2 Norway rats in Germany. The sequence suggests a separate genotype for this hepatotropic virus. KW - Hepatitis E virus KW - Norway rat KW - complete genome KW - viruses KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1609.100444 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/9/10-0444_article ER - End of Reference