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SUBMITTER: Bai H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7411586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bai Huimin H Li Wei W Guan Dawei D Su Juan J Ke Changwen C Ami Yasushi Y Suzaki Yuriko Y Takeda Naokazu N Muramatsu Masamichi M Li Tian-Cheng TC
Viruses 20200701 7
The Asian musk shrew (shrew) is a new reservoir of a rat hepatitis E virus (HEV) that has been classified into genotype HEV-C1 in the species <i>Orthohepevirus C.</i> However, there is no information regarding classification of the new rat HEV based on the entire genome sequences, and it remains unclear whether rat HEV transmits from shrews to humans. We herein inoculated nude rats (Long-Evans rnu/rnu) with a serum sample from a shrew trapped in China, which was positive for rat HEV RNA, to isol ...[more]