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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 76(1), 2007, pp. 170-172
Copyright © 2007 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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DETECTION OF HEPATITIS E VIRUS RNA FROM THE BIVALVE YAMATO-SHIJIMI (CORBICULA JAPONICA) IN JAPAN

TIAN-CHENG LI*, TATSUO MIYAMURA, AND NAOKAZU TAKEDA
Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Japan

 

ABSTRACT

To evaluate whether bivalves are contaminated with hepatitis E virus (HEV), samples of a bivalve called Yamato-Shijimi (Corbicula japonica) were examined for HEV by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction. Genotype 3 HEV was detected from 2 of 32 packages of Yamato-Shijimi obtained from Japanese rivers, which indicated that HEV contaminates river water in Japan.

Received June 19, 2006. Accepted for publication September 10, 2006.

Acknowledgments: We thank Tomoko Mizoguchi and Satoko Ogawa for secretarial work.

Financial support: This study was supported in part by grants for Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Research on Hepatitis, and Research on Food Safety from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan.

* Address correspondence to Tian-Cheng Li, Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. E-mail: litc{at}nih.go.jp

Authors’ address: Tian-Cheng Li, Tatsuo Miyamura, and Naokazu Takeda, Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Gakuen 4-7-1, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan, Telephone: 81-42-561-0771, Fax: 81-42-561-4729, E-mails: litc{at}nih.go.jp, tmiyam{at}nih.go.jp, and ntakeda{at}nih.go.jp.






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