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Genetic diversity of bluetongue viruses in south east Asia.
Virus research - 1 May 2004
Pritchard L I, Sendow I, Lunt R, Hassan S H, Kattenbelt J, Gould A R, Daniels P W, Eaton B T
Abstract excerpt
Bluetongue viruses (BTV) were isolated from sentinel cattle in Malaysia and at two sites in Indonesia. We identified eight serotypes some of which appeared to have a wide distribution throughout this region, while others were only isolated in Malaysia or Australia. Nearly half of the 24 known BTV serotypes have now been identified in Asia. Further, we investigated the genetic diversity of their RNA segments 3 and...
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