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Genetic diversity of swine influenza viruses isolated from pigs during 2000 to 2005 in Thailand.
Influenza and other respiratory viruses - 1 Sept 2008
Takemae Nobuhiro, Parchariyanon Sujira, Damrongwatanapokin Sudarat, Uchida Yuko, Ruttanapumma Ruttapong, Watanabe Chiaki, Yamaguchi Shigeo, Saito Takehiko
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies have revealed the existence of genetic diversity in swine influenza viruses (SIVs) in the world. In Thailand, there has been a little information on the molecular characteristics of the SIVs since the first isolation of viruses of H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes in the late 1970s. Our previous study demonstrated that Thai H1N1 SIVs possessed the classical swine H1 and avian-like swine N1 genes...
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