Mouse hepatitis virus [SEP] parent taxon
Mouse hepatitis virus
Mouse hepatitis virus is a virus of the family "Coronaviridae", genus "Betacoronavirus".
The "Murine coronavirus", Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), is a coronavirus that causes an epidemic murine illness with high mortality, especially among colonies of laboratory mice. Prior to the discovery of SARS-CoV, MHV had been the best-studied coronavirus both "in vivo" and "in vitro" as well as at the molecular level. Some strains of MHV cause a progressive demyelinating encephalitis
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Research directions.
Research directions Hepatitis B.
A Canadian paper published in 2015 used a mouse model of chronic hepatitis B infection and showed that interfering with certain proteins can facilitate clearance of the virus which may have implications for human disease.
Research directions Hepatitis E.
In March 2015, a group in China published an article regarding the development of a vaccine for hepatitis E. As of March 2016, the United States government was in the process of recruiting participants for the phase IV trial of the drug Hecolin