TABLE 3.

Geographic distribution of hepatitis A virus genotypes

Genotype	Host	Distribution of isolates	Reference(s)
IA	Human	United States, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, former USSR, Russia, Central Asia countries, Estonia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, England, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway, France, Albanian, Kosovo, Moldova, China, Korea, Thailand, Israel, Malaysia, India, Japan, North Africa, Tunisia, South Africa	6, 22, 26, 33, 37, 42,50, 51, 52, 64, 66, 69, 74, 86, 87, 89, 111, 112, 150, 161, 170, 184,191, 199, 200, 203, 206, 232, 239, 242, 245, 249, 251, 256; CDC, unpublished data
IB	Human	United States, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Norway, France, China, Thailand, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Japan, North Africa, Tunisia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Morocco, Australia	37, 38, 46, 51, 52, 64, 170, 200,206, 242, 245, 249, 251, 256, 262; CDC, unpublished data
II	Human	The Netherlands, France, Sierra Leone	34, 154, 200,245
III	Human	United States, Panama, Spain, Central Asia counties, Estonia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Japan	20, 87, 111, 117, 130, 170, 184, 199, 200,232, 239, 245, 249; CDC, unpublished data
IV	Nonhuman primate	Philippines	167
V	Nonhuman primate	Kenya	248
VI	Nonhuman primate	Indonesia	200