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No Evidence of Rat Hepatitis E Virus Excretion in Urine Samples of Rats
Tian-Cheng Li1, Sayaka Yoshizaki1, Yasushi Ami2
1Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
|September 2, 2016
Abstract:
To investigate whether rat hepatitis E virus (rat HEV) is excreted in the urine of HEV-infected rats, we infected 3 Wistar and 6 nude rats with rat HEV and examined the rat-HEV RNA in serum, fecal, and urine samples. We detected rat-HEV RNA in the serum and fecal samples of all 9 rats but not in any of the urine samples. Our results suggest that in rats, rat HEV is not transmitted via urine.
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