A new hepatitis E virus genotype 2 strain identified from an outbreak in Nigeria, 2017

Bo Wang1, Olusola Anuoluwapo Akanbi1, Dominik Harms1

  • 1Division of Viral Gastroenteritis and Hepatitis Pathogens and Enteroviruses, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, 13353, Berlin, Germany.

Virology Journal
|October 25, 2018
PubMed
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