Title
Divergent genotype of Hepatitis A virus in alpacas, Bolivia, 2019
Author(s)
Veith, Talitha; Beltrán-Saavedra, L. Fabián; Bleicker, Tobias; Schmidt, Marie Luisa; Mollericona, Jose L.; Grützmacher, Kim; Wallace, Robert; Drexler, Jan Felix; Walzer, Chris; Jones, Terry C.; Drosten, Christian; Corman, Victor Max
Published
2023
Publisher
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Abstract
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a common human pathogen found exclusively in primates. In a molecular and serologic study of 64 alpacas in Bolivia, we detected RNA of distinct HAV in ≈9% of animals and HAV antibodies in ≈64%. Complete-genome analysis suggests a long association of HAV with alpacas.

Access Full Text

A full-text copy of this article may be available. Please email the WCS Library to request.



Back

PUB36227