Table 7.

A summary of studies identifying HEV (genotype 3ra) in rabbits and hares

Country	Study	Seroprevalence	RNA prevalence
Burkina Faso	Ouoba et al. (2019)	60.0% of 100 rabbits, 52.6% of 19 hares	ND
Canada	Xie et al. (2017)	ND	5.0% of 63 companion rabbit faecal samples, 0.90% of 114 commercial rabbit faecal samples
China	Geng et al. (2011a)	54.6% of 119 farmed rabbits	7.0% of 119 farmed rabbit serum samples
	Geng et al. (2011b)	15.4% of 1094 farmed rabbits	2.0% of 1094 farmed rabbit serum samples
	Xia et al. (2015)	ND	5.0% of 492 rabbit faecal samples
	Li et al. (2020a)	ND	15.0% of 120 rabbit faecal samples
	Li et al. (2020b)	7.1% of 70 farmed rabbits	11.4% of 70 farmed rabbit faecal samples
France	Izopet et al. (2012)	ND	7.0% of 200 farmed rabbit bile samples, 23.0% of 205 wild rabbit liver samples
Germany	Eiden et al. (2016)	30.8% of 13 wild rabbits	30.8% of 13 wild rabbit serum samples
	Hammerschmidt et al. (2017)	37.3% of 164 wild rabbits, 2.2% of 669 wild hares	17.1% of wild rabbit serum samples, 0.0% of wild hare serum samples
	Ryll et al. (2018)	25% of 72 wild rabbits	34.7% of 72 wild rabbit liver samples
	Corman et al. (2019)	0.04% of 2389 wild hares	2.6% of 2389 wild hare serum samples
Italy	Di Bartolo et al. (2016)	3.4% of 206 farmed rabbits, 6.6% of 122 pet rabbits	0.0% of 7 IgG positive farmed rabbit serum samples, 0.0% of 122 pet rabbit serum samples
The Netherlands	Burt et al. (2016)	ND	23.0% of 35 petting farm rabbit faecal samples, 0% of 10 farmed rabbit liver and faecal samples, 60.0% of 32 wild rabbit liver samples and 16% of wild rabbit faecal samples
Poland	Bigoraj et al. (2020)	6.0% of 482 farmed rabbits	14.9% of 482 farmed rabbit liver samples
South Korea	Ahn et al. (2017)	ND	6.4% of 264 rabbit faecal samples
USA	Cossaboom et al. (2011)	36.5% of 85 rabbits	16.5% of 85 serum samples, 15.3% of 85 faecal samples

ND not done