Volume 11, Number 12, December 2005

Hepatitis E Virus Transmission from Wild Boar Meat

Tian-Cheng Li,* Katsumi Chijiwa,† Nobuyuki Sera,† Tetsuya Ishibashi,† Yoshiki Etoh,† Yuji Shinohara,‡ Yasuo Kurata,‡ Miki Ishida,§ Shigeru Sakamoto,¶ Naokazu Takeda,* and Tatsuo Miyamura*
*National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; †Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan; ‡Tagawa Health, Welfare, and Environment Office, Fukuoka, Japan; §Fukuoka Prefectual Government, Fukuoka, Japan; and ¶Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of hepatitis E virus (HEV) reconstructed with avian HEV as an outgroup. Nucleotide sequences of the entire open reading frame 2 were analyzed by the neighbor-joining method. The bootstrap values correspond to 1,000 replications. The 2 nucleotide sequences characterized in this study are shown in bold. The horizontal scale bar at the top left indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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