Complete Genome Sequence of a Swiss Hepatitis E Virus Isolate from the Liver of a Fattening Pig

Valerie Wist; Jakub Kubacki; Julia Lechmann; Marco Steck; Cornel Fraefel; Roger Stephan; Claudia Bachofen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00113-18

Complete Genome Sequence of a Swiss Hepatitis E Virus Isolate from the Liver of a Fattening Pig

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 1;6(9):e00113-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00113-18.

Authors

Valerie Wist^{1

2}, Jakub Kubacki¹, Julia Lechmann¹, Marco Steck¹, Cornel Fraefel¹, Roger Stephan², Claudia Bachofen³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland claudia.bachofen@uzh.ch.

Abstract

We present here the full-length genome sequence of a hepatitis E genotype 3 virus (HEV-3) isolate, CH_VW117, from the liver of a healthy fattening pig collected at the slaughter level. Sequence analysis implies that this strain belongs to the newly proposed HEV subtype 3s.