Hepeviridae Virus Isolate Classification
The Table below gives a summary of the current taxonomic structure of the Hepeviridae as as proposed in: Smith, D. B., Simmonds, P., Jameel, S., Emerson, S. U., Harrison, T. J., Meng, X.-J., Okamoto, H., Van der Poel, W. H. M. & Purdy, M. A. (2014). Consensus proposals for classification of the family Hepeviridae. J Gen Virol 95, 2223–32 and ratified by the ICTV.
Genus | Species | Genotype | Prototype/Reference Strain | Predominant Host Species | GenBank Accession |
Orthohepevirus | Orthohepevirus A | HEV-1 | Burma | Human | M73218 |
HEV-2 | Mexico | Human | KX578717 | ||
HEV-3 | Meng | Human, pig, rabbit, deer, mongoose | AF082843 | ||
HEV-4 | T1 | Human, pig | AJ272108 | ||
HEV-5 | JBOAR135-Shiz09 | Wild boar | AB573435 | ||
HEV-6 | wbJOY_06 | Wild boar | AB602441 | ||
HEV-7 | DcHEV-178C | Camel | KJ496143 | ||
Orthohepevirus B | F93-5077 | Chicken | AY535004 | ||
Orthohepevirus C | HEV-C1 | R63 | Rat | GU345042 | |
HEV-C2 | FRHEV4 | Ferret | JN998606 | ||
Orthohepevirus D | HEV/BS7/GE/2009 | Bat | JQ001749 | ||
Piscihepevirus | Piscihepevirus A | Heenan Lake | Trout | HQ731075 |
An alignment of concatenated ORF1 and ORF2 amino acid sequences of Orthohepevirus species is available in FASTA and SSE formats.
Reference sequences for subtypes of Orthohepvirus A have been proposed are available on a separate page.