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VIROLOGY
Volume 287, Issue 1, Pages 9-12Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1017
Keywords
hepatitis E virus (HEV); single-stranded RNA virus; genotype; Japanese strain
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We identified hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA in serum from a Japanese patient with acute hepatitis, who had never been abroad. The full-genome nucleotide sequence of the HEV isolate (JRA1) from this patient was composed of 7227 nucleotides excepting the poly(A) tail and had ORF1 coding for 1703 amino acids (aa), ORF2 coding for 660 aa, and ORF3 coding for 122 aa. This Japanese strain showed approximately 87% nucleotide similarity to human and swine strains reported from the United States, while it had only 73-76% similarity to Asian and Mexican strains. Here we report the characteristics of the HEV-JRA1 isolate, which might be the first example of an indigenous strain(s) of HEV in Japan. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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