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Volume 16, Number 9—September 2010
Dispatch

Analysis of Avian Hepatitis E Virus from Chickens, China

Qin Zhao, En Min Zhou1Comments to Author , Shi Wei Dong, Hong Kai Qiu, Lu Zhang, Shou Bin Hu, Fei Fei Zhao, Shi Jin Jiang, and Ya Ni Sun
Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

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Table 2

Percentage identities among avian HEV strains in nucleotide/amino acid sequences*

Sequence and strain “Avirulent aHEV” Prototype aHEV AaHEV EaHEV CaHEV
Near-complete genome sequence
“Avirulent aHEV” 90.1 82.7 82.9 82.6
Prototype aHEV 82.5 82.2 82.0
AaHEV 82.5 82.4
EaHEV 98.3
CaHEV





ORF1
“Avirulent aHEV” 89.6 82.1 81.8 81.7
Prototype aHEV 97.4 81.6 81.0 80.7
AaHEV 93.9 93.7 81.7 81.6
EaHEV 92.9 93.0 93.1 98.3
CaHEV
92.7
92.8
93.0
98.8

ORF2
“Avirulent aHEV” 90.7 84.5 84.0 84.1
Prototype aHEV 99.0 84.3 84.4 84.5
AaHEV 98.5 98.8 84.1 84.4
EaHEV 98.2 98.7 98.8 98.5
CaHEV
98.3
99.0
98.8
99.7

ORF3
“Avirulent aHEV” 97.0 95.4 93.6 93.9
Prototype aHEV 99.0 95.4 93.6 93.9
AaHEV 94.3 96.6 93.5 93.9
EaHEV 88.6 88.6 92.0 98.9
CaHEV
88.6
88.6
92.0
97.7

3′ NCR
“Avirulent aHEV” 92.8 82.8 88.6 89.4
Prototype aHEV 83.6 85.5 86.3
AaHEV 80.5 78.9
EaHEV 97.6
CaHEV

*HEV, hepatitis E virus; ORF, open reading frame; NCR, noncoding region. Boldface indicates percentage identities of amino acid sequences. “Avirulent aHEV” and prototype aHEV are avian HEV isolates from the United States, GenBank accession nos. EF206691 and AM535004, respectively. AaHEV, EaHEV, and CaHEV are avian HEV isolates from Australia, Europe, and China, GenBank accession nos. AM943647, AM943646, and GU954430, respectively.

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1Current affiliation: Northwest A&F University, Yangling, People’s Republic of China.

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