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Identification of a novel variant of human hepatitis E virus in Hungary

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 100-102

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2006.01.016

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non-A; non-C hepatitis; genotype 3 hepatitis E virus

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First human case of hepatitis E infection detected in Hungary is reported. This hepatitis E virus (HEV), Hungary1, belongs to genotype 3 and had 95% and 90% nucleotide identity within the capsid region of the European swine and human (Greece2) strains, respectively. Hungary I represents a potential novel human variant of HEV in genus Hepevirus. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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