A tightly clustered hepatitis E virus genotype 1a is associated with endemic and outbreak infections in Bangladesh.
Trang Nguyen HoaSaif Ullah MunshiKhanh Nguyen NgocChau Le NgocThanh Tran Thi ThanhTahmina AktherShahina TabassumNilufa ParvinStephen BakerMotiur RahmanPublished in: PloS one (2021)
Strains of HEV genotype 1a are dominant in Bangladesh and are associated with endemic and outbreak of HEV infection. HEV isolates in Bangladesh have high prevalence of virulence associated mutations and mutation which alters antigenicity to B and T cell epitopes.