文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Meng, Kai ¹ ; Liu, Mingchao ² ; Zhang, Yuxia ¹ ; Yuan, Xiaoyuan ¹ ; Xu, Hua ³ ;

作者机构： 1.Shandong Acad Agr Sci, Poultry Inst, Jinan, Peoples R China

2.Hebei Agr Univ, Coll Vet Med, Baoding, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, Yellow Sea Fisheries Res Inst, Qingdao, Peoples R China

关键词： Hepatitis; Chicken; Novel avian Hepatitis E virus; Whole-genome analysis; Genetic evolution analysis

期刊名称：VIRUS GENES （ 影响因子：2.198； 五年影响因子：1.938 ）

ISSN： 0920-8569

年卷期： 2022 年 58 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： 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.