Nguyen Tuyet Nga, Nguyen Thu Van, Hoang Thuy Nguyen 1
Jihong Meng2,3, Michael A.
Purdy, Yury E. Khudyakov, Howard A. Fields 3
1 National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,
2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
3 Hepatitis Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,GA,USA
The nucleotide sequence from position 5966 to 6582 of the
hepatitis E virus (HEV) genome was determined from a Vietnamese isolate
obtained from the acute-phase sera of a sporadic case of acute hepatitis. This
sequence was compared with the corresponding sequences of 17 HEV strains
deposited in GenBank. This analysis revealed that the Vietnamese strain of HEV
belongs to genotype 1 closely related to the