No evidence of rat hepatitis E virus excretion into urine of rats.

No evidence of rat hepatitis E virus excretion into urine of rats.
Jpn J Infect Dis. 2016 Aug 31;
Authors: Li TC, Yoshizaki S, Ami Y, Suzaki Y, Johne R, Wakita T
Abstract
To investigate whether rat hepatitis E virus (rat HEV) is excreted into the urine of rats, we infected three Wistar and six nude rats with rat HEV and examined the rat HEV RNA in serum, fecal and urine samples. We detected rat HEV RNA in the serum and fecal samples of all rats but not in the urine. Our results suggest that in rats, rat HEV is not transmitted via urine.
PMID: 27580584 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 30, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Li TC, Yoshizaki S, Ami Y, Suzaki Y, Johne R, Wakita T Tags: Jpn J Infect Dis Source Type: research