Research Note: A putative novel subtype of the avian hepatitis E virus of genotype 3, Jiangxi province, China.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, the avian hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been widely spread in China, causing huge economic losses. Several studies have carried out detailed epidemiologic investigations of the avian HEV, but no data were from Jiangxi province. Since early April 2020, diseases similar to hepatic rupture hemorrhage syndrome caused by the avian HEV occurred in a Roman Brown layer farm in Jiangxi province, indicating this virus may also be epidemic there. To make this assumption clear, 20 liver samples were collected from the sick flock and then analyzed by detailed viral detection, which confirmed that the avian HEV should be responsible for the aforementioned disease (6 of 20). Then, the capsid gene of the virus was sequenced to show the molecular characteristics of the strain circulating in

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705056 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature