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SUBMITTER: Yang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7173211 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 20180526
The orthohepadnaviruses, which include the major human pathogen hepatitis B virus, exist in a wide range of hosts. Since 2013, a large group of orthohepadnaviruses has been identified in bats worldwide and classified as 4 species within the genus Orthohepadnavirus. To further investigate orthohepadnaviruses in the Chinese bat population, 554 archived bat samples from 20 colonies covering 3 southern provinces were screened with results showing that 9 (1.6%) were positive. A systematic phylogeneti ...[more]