Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Research
Hepatitis E Virus Strains in Rabbits and Evidence of a Closely Related Strain in Humans, France
Table 4
Percent identities of full-length sequences among HEV strains from rabbits and other HEV strains, France*
Virus strain | HEV strains, % identity |
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TLS-18516 | HEV1 | HEV2 | HEV3 | HEV4 | |
GU937805-China-rabbit | 85.0 | 73.0–73.7 | 72.2 | 76.3–78.2 | 72.9–73.9 |
W7–57-wild-rabbit | 80.3 | 72.7–73.4 | 73.5 | 76.2–77.6 | 73.2–73.6 |
W1–11-wild-rabbit | 80.6 | 73.2–73.7 | 73.4 | 76.1–78.0 | 74.2–74.9 |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; HEV1 (M73218–1a-Burma, D11093–1b-Japan, X98292–1c-India, AY204877–1e-Chad, AY230202–1d-Morocco); HEV2 (M774506–2a-Mexico) ; HEV3 (AF060669–3a-USA, AY115488–3j-Canada-Sw, AB291963–3b-Japan, TLS-TR19–3c, TLS-TR02–3e, AB481226–3e-Japan-Sw,EU495148–3f-France,AF455784–3g-kyrgyzstan-Sw); HEV4 (AB099347–4c-Japan, AB108537–4g-China, AY594199–4d-China-Sw).