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Highly diverse type of equine arteritis virus (EAV) from the semen of a South African donkey: short communication.
Acta veterinaria Hungarica - 1 Jun 2006
Stadejek T, Mittelholzer Ch, Oleksiewicz M B, Paweska J, Belák S
Abstract excerpt
Equine arteritis virus (EAV) was detected by RT-nested PCR in semen samples from a naturally infected South African donkey. Sequence analysis of the amplified ORF5 fragment revealed only 60 to 70% nucleotide identity to a panel of EAV reference sequences. The unique donkey EAV sequence was also found to be stable during passage in horses. The sequence data reported in this study indicate that the South African...
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