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TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 229-232Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12348
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hepatitis E virus; rabbit; zoonosis
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In this work, we identified for the first time hepatitis E virus (HEV) in a pet house rabbit, an adult 7years old female of domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Importantly, the resulting phylogenetic tree showed that the HEV strain identified in the pet house rabbit was closely related to a human HEV sequence; this finding reawakens concerns regarding the zoonotic risk represented by HEV in animals and expands to house rabbit the spectrum of potential source of infection for humans. Potential for domestic transmission of HEV to humans should be taken into account.
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