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Identification of Hepatitis E Virus in the Feces of Red Foxes (
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- Preliminary Screening for Selected Viral Pathogens in Red Fox Carcasses from Pisa Province, Italy.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Hepatitis E in Wildlife: Emerging Threats to Human Health.Veterinary sciences · 2026Review
- First Evidence of Spillover ofTransboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Detection of anti-HEV antibodies but no molecular positivity in dogs in the Campania region, southern Italy.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Serological survey on Hepatitis E virus in Namibian dogs, cats, horses, and donkeys.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
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- Absence of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Circulation in the Most Widespread Wild Croatian Canine Species, the Red Fox (Microorganisms · 2023Article
- A Unique Case of Fatal Coinfection Caused byPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Molecular Identification and Characterization of a Genotype 3 Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Strain Detected in a Wolf Faecal Sample, Italy.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Orthohepeviruses (HEV) can infect a wide range of animals, showing a relatively strict host specificity; however, its zoonotic potential, natural transmission in the wildlife are less known. Several new HEV-like viruses have been identified in various animal species, including carnivores; however, the phylogenetic relationship among these viruses is poorly resolved, since some of them were known as rodent-related so far. The red fox, the most widespread carnivore worldwide, is a known reservoir of several viruses that transmit from wildlife to humans or domestic animals; they might have a defined role in the circulation of rodent-borne HEV. In this study, we performed a HEV survey by heminested RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription PCR) on red fox fecal samples to investigate the presence of HEV in red foxes living in natural conditions, and to explore the origin of the virus via phylogenetic analysis. Out of the 26 investigated samples, HEV RNA was identified in one sample. Following Sanger sequencing, the novel sequence displayed 91% identity on the nucleotide level with recently published European common vole-HEV derived from
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