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Epidemiological analysis of bovine torovirus in Japan.
Virus research - 1 Jun 2007
Ito Toshihiro, Okada Nobutaka, Fukuyama Shin-ichi
Abstract excerpt
Bovine torovirus (BToV), a member of the Coronaviridae family, is an established gastrointestinal infectious agent in cattle. No epidemiological research on BToV has been reported from Japan. In this study, we performed a survey to detect BToV in Japan in 2004 and 2005 using 231 fecal samples (167 from diarrheic cattle and 64 from asymptomatic cattle) that were analyzed by nested reverse transcription (RT) PCR...
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