Hepatitis A Virus
Research from V.A. Arankalle et al has provided new information about hepatitis A virus
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 30th, 2009
"A simian hepatitis A virus (HAV) was identified retrospectively in a faecal sample from a rhesus monkey in India, inoculated in 1995 with a faecal suspension from a suspected patient of non-A to E hepatitis. The monkey was in captivity for 2 years in one of the experimental primate facilities in western India before being moved to the National Institute of Virology, Pune for experimentation," scientists in Pune, India report.
"Phylogenetic analysis based on a partial sequence of the 5' noncoding region placed this virus in genotype V, the only other member being the AGM-27 strain recovered in 1986 from African green monkeys in Kenya. The source of infection of the...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2009-03-30)
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