Volume 15, Number 3—March 2009
Research
Sources of Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 in the Netherlands
Saskia A. Rutjes
, Willemijn J. Lodder, Froukje Lodder-Verschoor, Harold H.J.L. van den Berg, Harry Vennema, Erwin Duizer, Marion Koopmans, and Ana Maria de Roda Husman
, Willemijn J. Lodder, Froukje Lodder-Verschoor, Harold H.J.L. van den Berg, Harry Vennema, Erwin Duizer, Marion Koopmans, and Ana Maria de Roda Husman
Table 2
Nucleotide identities between environmental and human HEV strains that circulated during 2004–2006, the Netherlands*
| Cluster | Nucleotide identities between environmental HEV strains† |
Nucleotide identities between human and environmental HEV strains† |
Nucleotide identities between human HEV strains† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. strains compared | Minimal, % | Maximal, % | No. strains compared | Minimal, % | Maximal, % | No. strains compared | Minimal, % | Maximal, % | |||
| 3a | 6 | 96.0 | 99.3 | 7 | 96.6 | 99.3 | 1 | – | – | ||
| 3c | 16 | 88.5 | 100 | 28 | 87.2 | 100 | 12 | 88.2 | 100 | ||
| 3e | 3 | 91.2 | 96.6 | 5 | 92.6 | 97.3 | 2 | 93.3 | 97.3 | ||
| 3f | 20 | 87.2 | 97.3 | 21 | 88.5 | 93.9 | 1 | – | – | ||
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; –, no identities (1 human HEV sequence was present).
†Based on a 148-nt sequence of open reading frame 2 (nt 6322–6469 of strain M73218).
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