Table 1.

Hepatitis E virus RNA-positive rate in experimental and control Mongolian gerbils

	Post-inoculation day
Group	0	7	14	21	28	35	42	49
HEV-inoculated	0/14	5/14	10/12	10/10	8/8	6/6	1/4	0/2
Control	0/7	0/7	0/6	0/5	0/4	0/3	0/2	0/1

The viral shedding in feces was detected by reverse transcription-nested polymerase chain reaction. HEV: Hepatitis E virus.