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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research Letter

Hepatitis E Virus Infection in European Brown Hares, Germany, 2007–2014

Victor Max CormanComments to Author , Laura Hilgensloh, Ulrich Voigt, Marco Marklewitz, Ursula Siebert, Christian Drosten, and Jan Felix Drexler
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (V.M. Corman, M. Marklewitz, C. Drosten, J.F. Drexler); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Berlin (V.M. Corman, C. Drosten, J.F. Drexler); University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (L. Hilgensloh); University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Germany (U. Voigt, U. Siebert)

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Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of the concatenated open reading frame 1 and 2 nucleotide sequences of hare hepatitis E virus (HEV) strain from Germany (black diamonds), related strains from rabbits (bold) and humans, and reference Orthohepevirus A strains, as defined by Smith et al. (7). Taxon names of all reference sequences include genotype, subtype (x if not available), and GenBank accession number. Black circles at nodes indicate bootstrap supports of >90% and white circles >75% (1,000 r

Figure. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of the concatenated open reading frame 1 and 2 nucleotide sequences of hare hepatitis E virus (HEV) strain from Germany (black diamond), related strains from rabbits (bold) and humans, and reference Orthohepevirus A strains, as defined by Smith et al. (7). Taxon names of all reference sequences include genotype, subtype (x if not available), and GenBank accession number. Black circles at nodes indicate bootstrap supports of >90% and white circles >75% (1,000 replicates). The clades comprising sequences other than HEV genotype 3 were collapsed for graphical reasons. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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