Volume 17, Number 11—November 2011
Dispatch
Hepatitis E Virus in Rabbits, Virginia, USA
Table 2
Nucleotide sequence identities of a 765-bp capsid gene sequence among HEV strains from rabbits in China and the United States and other HEV strains*
Virus isolate |
HEV strains, % identity
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China | Genotype 1 | Genotype 2 | Genotype 3 | Genotype 4 | Avian | |
USRab-14 | 87.2–89.0 | 78.3–79.3 | 74.8 | 80.1–82.3 | 78.9–81.0 | 34.9–35.9 |
China GDC9/GDC46 | NA | 77.2–78.6 | 74.5–75.5 | 78.7–83.1 | 78.0–82.0 | 35.3–36.0 |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; NA, not applicable.