A genetically novel avian Hepatitis E virus in China

Virus genes(2022)

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Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has a global distribution with diverse hosts, including mammals and avians. In this study, an avian Hepatitis E virus (aHEV) strain with a high mortality rate of about 30%, designated as SDXT20, was obtained from the liver of 30-week-old Hubbard chickens with severe hepatosplenomegaly in 2020 in Eastern China and HEV was proved to be the only pathogen by next-generation sequencing. Its complete genome, which encodes three open reading frames (ORFs), is 6649 nt in length. ORF1-3 encodes three proteins with lengths of 1532 aa, 606 aa, and 82 aa, respectively, and ORF2 and ORF3 overlap with each other. BLAST-based similarity analysis of the complete viral genome demonstrated that SDXT20 had merely 80.5–92.2% similarity with avian Avihepevirus magniiecur strains and 50.4%–54.8% lower similarity with Paslahepevirus balayani, Rocahepevirus ratti, and Chirohepevirus eptesici species . Further genetic evolution analysis of the complete genome and ORF2 revealed that the isolate was genetically distinct from known aHEVs, and it belonged to a novel genetically distinct aHEV. This study provides data for further analysis of the multi-host and cross-host genetic evolution of HEVs.
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Chicken,Genetic evolution analysis,Hepatitis,Novel avian Hepatitis E virus,Whole-genome analysis
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