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Pet rats represent a reservoir of multiple zoonotic pathogens. We demonstrated that pet rats, previously confirmed to be Seoul orthohantavirus–infected and involved in human infections in Germany, were concurrently infected with rat hepatitis E virus. The high degree of rat hepatitis E virus sequence identity suggests a single incursion event.
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