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Molecular characterization of the equine herpesvirus 1 strains RacL11 and Kentucky D.
The Journal of veterinary medical science - 1 May 2007
Ghanem Yasser M, Ibrahim El-Sayed M, Yamada Souichi, Matsumura Tomio, Osterrieder Nikolaus, Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi, Fukushi Hideto
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenicities of RacL11 and Kentucky D strains of equine herpesvirus 1 in the hamster infection model are different from those of Ab4p and the Japanese isolates. Virus genome restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and sequence comparison of an intergenic region, glycoproteins and tegument genes showed higher conservation but with some strain-specific differences. These results indicate that point...
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