Classification of the Zoonotic Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Into Distinct Subgenotypes

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is the most common genotype linked to HEV infections in Europe and America. Three major clades (HEV-3.1, HEV-3.2, and HEV-3.3) have been identified but the overlaps between intra-subtype and inter-subtype p-distances make subtype classification inconsistent. Refere...

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Autores principales: Nicot, Florence, Dimeglio, Chloé, Migueres, Marion, Jeanne, Nicolas, Latour, Justine, Abravanel, Florence, Ranger, Noémie, Harter, Agnès, Dubois, Martine, Lameiras, Sonia, Baulande, Sylvain, Chapuy-Regaud, Sabine, Kamar, Nassim, Lhomme, Sébastien, Izopet, Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Microbiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33584599
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.634430
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Sumario:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is the most common genotype linked to HEV infections in Europe and America. Three major clades (HEV-3.1, HEV-3.2, and HEV-3.3) have been identified but the overlaps between intra-subtype and inter-subtype p-distances make subtype classification inconsistent. Reference sequences have been proposed to facilitate communication between researchers and new putative subtypes have been identified recently. We have used the full or near full-length HEV-3 genome sequences available in the Genbank database (April 2020; n = 503) and distance analyses of clades HEV-3.1 and HEV-3.2 to determine a p-distance cut-off (0.093 nt substitutions/site) in order to define subtypes. This could help to harmonize HEV-3 genotyping, facilitate molecular epidemiology studies and investigations of the biological and clinical differences between HEV-3 subtypes.

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