Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a zoonotic virus for which pigs are the primary animal reservoir. To investigate whether HEV occurs in mink in Denmark, we screened feces and tissues from domestic and wild mink. Our finding of a novel HEV variant supports previous findings of HEV variants in a variety of species.
Keywords: Denmark; HEV; hepatitis; hepatitis E virus; mink; neovison vison; real time RT-PCR; viruses; zoonoses.