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Molecular epizootiology of avian infectious bronchitis in Russia.
Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A - 1 Oct 2006
Bochkov Yury A, Batchenko Galina V, Shcherbakova Lidiya O, Borisov Alexander V, Drygin Vladimir V
Abstract excerpt
Molecular characterization of infectious bronchitis viruses (IBVs) isolated between 1998 and 2002 from chickens in Russia was performed. More than 250 field samples were tested by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction using two sets of primers corresponding to the most conserved 3'-untranslated region and the most variable S1 gene region of the viral genome. Ninety-one IBV isolates were characterized by...
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