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Full-length sequence of genotype 3 hepatitis E virus derived from a pig in Thailand

✍ Scribed by Uamporn Siripanyaphinyo; Dusit Laohasinnarong; Juthamas Siripanee; Kampon Kaeoket; Masanori Kameoka; Kazuyoshi Ikuta; Pathom Sawanpanyalert

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
140 KB
Volume
81
Category
Article
ISSN
0146-6615

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Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in pigs was investigated in two principal swine farming areas in Thailand. Anti‐HEV antibodies and HEV RNA in sera were examined in 258 pigs reared on five commercial farms from age 1 to 6.5 months and sows. Overall, 167 of 258 (64.7%) pigs were positive for anti‐HEV IgG, while 20 of 258 (7.75%) had detectable HEV RNA. Sequence analysis of 20 HEV isolates obtained from viremic pigs revealed that they were 92.3–100% identical to each other and had 82.2–88.2% nucleotide similarity to other reported genotype 3 isolates in 415 nucleotide sequences within ORF2 region. Further characterization by sequencing the complete genome of the Thai swine HEV isolate (named Thai‐swHEV07) and phylogenetic analysis showed that Thai‐swHEV07 segregated into a cluster consisting of swine isolates from Japan, Mongolia, and Kyrgyzstan within the HEV genotype 3. The Thai‐swHEV07 had a genomic length of 7,229 nt excluding the polyadenylated region at 3′ terminus of the genome. Comparison of Thai‐swHEV07 and 27 reported strains of genotype 3 revealed 80.4–85.9% nucleotide identity, with the highest identity of 85.9% to the novel swHEV strain from Mongolia. These findings suggest that genotype 3 HEV isolates are markedly heterogeneous. J. Med. Virol. 81:657–664, 2009 © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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