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First description of hepatitis E virus in Australian rabbits

Author(s) -

Jenckel M,

Hall RN,

Strive T

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

australian veterinary journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1751-0813

pISSN - 0005-0423

DOI - 10.1111/avj.13073

Subject(s) - virology , biology , virus , hepatitis , hepatitis e virus , hepatitis c virus , genome , gene , genetics , genotype

We report the first detection of hepatitis E virus in rabbits in Australia. While conducting metatranscriptomic sequencing of liver samples collected from domestic rabbits that had died, we detected hepatitis E virus in three samples. Two viral genome sequences were obtained, which shared 96% nucleotide identity and clustered with hepatitis E strains isolated from rabbits and humans in Europe. This raises a potential public health risk in Australia, as the abundance of wild rabbits and the increasing popularity of domestic rabbits as pets represent a substantial human/rabbit interface to allow for potential zoonotic infections to occur.

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