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Characterization of new variants of avian infectious bronchitis virus in Tunisia.
Avian diseases - 1 Sept 2009
Bourogâa Hager, Miled Khaled, Gribâa Latifa, El Behi Imen, Ghram Abdeljelil
Abstract excerpt
Three infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) strains, isolated from suspected Tunisian broiler flocks, were characterized as variant viruses using genotyping and serotyping techniques. They were compared with commonly used vaccine strains, including 793/B, D274, and Massachusetts types. Reverse transcription-PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism, nucleotide sequencing, and GenBank BLAST database analyses of the...
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