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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Dispatch

Divergent Genotype of Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas, Bolivia, 2019

Talitha Veith, L. Fabian Beltran-Saavedra, Tobias Bleicker, Marie Luisa Schmidt, José L. Mollericona, Kim Grützmacher, Rob Wallace, Jan Felix Drexler, Christian Walzer, Terry C. Jones, Christian Drosten, and Victor Max CormanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin—corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany (T. Veith, T. Bleicker, M.L. Schmidt, J.F. Drexler, T.C. Jones, C. Drosten, V.M. Corman); Wildlife Conservation Society, La Paz, Bolivia (L.F. Beltran-Saavedra, J.L. Mollericona, R. Wallace); Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, New York, USA (L.F. Beltran-Saavedra, J.L. Mollericona, R. Wallace, C. Walzer); Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin (K. Grützmacher); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Bonn, Germany (K. Grützmacher); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Berlin (J.F. Drexler, C. Drosten, V.M. Corman); University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria (C. Walzer); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (T.C. Jones); Labor Berlin Charité–Vivantes GmbH, Berlin (V.M. Corman)

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Table 2

Results of hepatis A virus IgG ELISA in serum of alpacas and llamas, Bolivia, 2019

Animal No. Reactive serum samples/total tested (%)
Age <2 y Age >2 y Total
Llamas 6 0 4/6 (66.7%) 4/6 (66.7%)
Alpacas 64 12*/26 (46.2%) 29/38 (76.3%) 41*/64 (64.1%)
Total 70 12*/26 (46.2%) 33/44 (75.0%) 45*/70 (64.3%)

*One alpaca serum sample from an alpaca <2 years of age (Chu-alp-06, positive in quantitative reverse transcription PCR) had an unclear ELISA result in 2 tests and a negative result in a 3rd test.

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