TY - JOUR AU - Birke, Leslie AU - Cormier, Stephania AU - You, Dahui AU - Stout, Rhett AU - Clement, Christian AU - Johnson, Merlin AU - Thompson, Hilary T1 - Hepatitis E Antibodies in Laboratory Rabbits from 2 US Vendors T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 4 SP - 693 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We tested laboratory rabbits from 2 US vendors for antibodies against hepatitis E virus (HEV); Seroprevalences were 40% and 50%. Retrospective analysis of an ocular herpes simplex 1 experiment demonstrated that HEV seropositivity had no effect on experiment outcome. HEV probably is widespread in research rabbits, but effects on research remain unknown. KW - Hepatitis E virus KW - herpes simplex 1 virus KW - rabbits KW - HEV KW - viruses KW - zoonoses DO - 10.3201/eid2004.131229 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/4/13-1229_article ER - End of Reference