Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Research
Hepatitis E Virus Strains in Rabbits and Evidence of a Closely Related Strain in Humans, France
Table 1
Detection of hepatitis E virus RNA in farmed and wild rabbits, France
Source | Location/department | No. tested | No. (%) HEV RNA positive |
---|---|---|---|
Farmed rabbits | |||
F20 |
Calvados | 10 | 0 |
F4 |
Calvados | 10 | 1 (10) |
F6 |
Deux-Sèvres | 10 | 1 (10) |
F7 |
Deux-Sèvres | 10 | 1 (10) |
F12 |
Deux-Sèvres | 10 | 0 |
F16 |
Deux-Sèvres | 10 | 0 |
F3 |
Loire Atlantique | 10 | 2 (20) |
F8 |
Loire Atlantique | 10 | 0 |
F1 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 5 (50) |
F5 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 1 (10) |
F10 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 0 |
F15 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 0 |
F17 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 0 |
F19 |
Maine et Loire | 10 | 0 |
F2 |
Vendée | 10 | 3 (30) |
F9 |
Vendée | 10 | 0 |
F11 |
Vendée | 10 | 0 |
F13 |
Vendée | 10 | 0 |
F14 |
Vendée | 10 | 0 |
F18 |
Vendée | 10 | 0 |
Wild rabbits | |||
W9 |
Charentes | 26 | 3 (12) |
W5 |
Deux-Sèvres | 44 | 13 (30) |
W14 |
Deux-Sèvres | 3 | 0 |
W2 |
Dordogne | 5 | 3 (60) |
W6 |
Dordogne | 8 | 3 (38) |
W8 |
Dordogne | 4 | 1 (25) |
W11 |
Dordogne | 1 | 0 |
W12 |
Dordogne | 5 | 0 |
W15 |
Dordogne | 4 | 0 |
W16 |
Dordogne | 17 | 0 |
W1 |
Finistère | 10 | 10 (100) |
W4 |
Finistère | 10 | 4 (40) |
W7 |
Finistère | 15 | 4 (27) |
W3 |
Haute-Garonne | 12 | 6 (50) |
W13 |
Loire Atlantique | 11 | 0 |
W18 |
Loire Atlantique | 1 | 0 |
W10 |
Morbihan | 10 | 0 |
W17 |
Pyrénées Orientales | 19 | 0 |
*F, farm; W, warren.