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Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017
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Rabbit Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Humans, France

Florence AbravanelComments to Author , Sébastien Lhomme, Hicham El Costa, Betoul Schvartz, Jean-Marie Peron, Nassim Kamar, and Jacques Izopet
Author affiliations: Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, Toulouse, France (F. Abravanel, S. Lhomme, H. El Costa, N. Kamar, J. Izopet); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse (F. Abravanel, S. Lhomme, J.-M. Peron, N. Kamar, J. Izopet); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims, Reims, France (B. Schvartz)

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Phylogenetic tree for a 347-nt sequence within open reading frame 2 of hepatitis E viruses, France. Genetic distances were calculated by using the Kimura 2-parameter method, and the tree was plotted using the by the neighbor-joining method. Values along branches are bootstrap values acquired after 100 replications. Virus sequences obtained from patients in this study (gray shading) were compared with reference sequences of subtypes 3 viruses according to the proposal of Smith et al. (3). GenBan

Figure. Phylogenetic tree for a 347-nt sequence within open reading frame 2 of hepatitis E viruses, France. Genetic distances were calculated by using the Kimura 2-parameter method, and the tree was plotted using the by the neighbor-joining method. Values along branches are bootstrap values acquired after 100 replications. Virus sequences obtained from patients in this study (gray shading) were compared with reference sequences of subtypes 3 viruses according to the proposal of Smith et al. (3). GenBank accession numbers, genotypes, and countries of origin are listed. Reference sequence in bold is from a hepatitis E virus genotype 3-ra isolated from a human. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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