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Genotypes of canine distemper virus determined by analysis of the hemagglutinin genes of recent isolates from dogs in Japan.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1999
Mochizuki M, Hashimoto M, Hagiwara S, Yoshida Y, Ishiguro S
Abstract excerpt
Canine distemper of domestic dogs is caused by canine distemper virus (CDV), a member of the morbilliviruses. It has been a highly contagious disease of great veterinary importance for centuries, but for the last several decades it has been controlled satisfactorily by modified live vaccines. In the 1990s, however, it was described that CDV strains genetically different from vaccine strains may have caused the...
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