A Novel Hepe-Like Virus from Farmed Giant Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii

The family Hepeviridae includes several positive-stranded RNA viruses, which infect a wide range of mammalian species, chicken, and trout. However, few hepatitis E viruses (HEVs) have been characterized from invertebrates. In this study, a hepevirus, tentatively named Crustacea hepe-like virus 1 (CH...

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Autores principales: Dong, Xuan, Hu, Tao, Liu, Qingyuan, Li, Chen, Sun, Yani, Wang, Yiting, Shi, Weifeng, Zhao, Qin, Huang, Jie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
Materias:
Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32192159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12030323
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Sumario:The family Hepeviridae includes several positive-stranded RNA viruses, which infect a wide range of mammalian species, chicken, and trout. However, few hepatitis E viruses (HEVs) have been characterized from invertebrates. In this study, a hepevirus, tentatively named Crustacea hepe-like virus 1 (CHEV1), from the economically important crustacean, the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, was characterized. The complete genome consisted of 7750 nucleotides and had a similar structure to known hepatitis E virus genomes. Phylogenetic analyses suggested it might be a novel hepe-like virus within the family Hepeviridae. To our knowledge, this is the first hepe-like virus characterized from crustaceans.

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