Identification of a Novel Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Strain Isolated from a Chronic Hepatitis E Virus Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient in Switzerland-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Identification of a Novel Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Strain Isolated from a Chronic Hepatitis E Virus Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient in Switzerland

Published:2017-05-18 Issue:20 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2169-8287
Container-title:Genome Announcements
language:en
Short-container-title:Genome Announc

Author:

Wang Bo¹^ORCID,Harms Dominik¹,Hofmann Jörg²³,Ciardo Diana⁴,Kneubühl Agnes⁵,Bock C.-Thomas¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

2. Institute of Medical Virology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

3. Labor Berlin, Charité-Vivantes GmbH, Berlin, Germany

4. Corelab Immunology, Viollier AG, Allschwill, Switzerland

5. Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Spital Lachen, Lachen, Switzerland

Abstract

ABSTRACT Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 (HEV-3) is the causal pathogen of chronic hepatitis E. We report here the full-length genome sequence of an HEV-3 strain, isolated from a kidney transplant recipient in Switzerland (SW/16-0282). This HEV-3 strain showed less than 88% homology compared to known strains, suggesting a new HEV-3 strain.

Funder

China Scholarship Council

Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Genetics,Molecular Biology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/genomeA.00345-17

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