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Evaluation of a nested polymerase chain reaction assay to differentiate between two genotypes of Porcine circovirus-2.
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc - 1 May 2008
Lyoo Kwang Soo, Kim Hyeun Bum, Joo Han Soo
Abstract excerpt
Porcine circovirus-2 (PCV-2) is associated with several diseases in pigs, including postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). A new genotype of PCV-2 was isolated from swine farms with and without clinical PMWS in North America. The new genotype was differentiated in a separate cluster by phylogenetic analyses and is now named PCV-2b compared with PCV-2a for the previously known genotype. The purpose of...
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