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Real–Time Reverse Transcription–Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for the Detection and Differentiation of North American Swine Influenza Viruses
1 Sept 2004
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Swine influenza is an acute respiratory disease of swine caused by type A influenza viruses. Before 1998, mainly "classical" HIN1 swine influenza viruses (SIVs) were isolated from swine in the United States. Since then, antigenically distinct reassortant H3 and H1 SIVs have been identified as causative agents of respiratory disease in pigs on US farms. Improvement in SIV diagnostics is needed in light of the...
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