Article
Genetic and antigenic characterization of newly isolated bovine toroviruses from Japanese cattle.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2010
Ito Toshihiro, Katayama Shigeji, Okada Nobutaka, Masubuchi Katsuo, Fukuyama Shin-ichi, Shimizu Mitsugu
Abstract excerpt
Torovirus, a member of the Coronaviridae family, is a gastrointestinal infectious agent that has been identified in humans, cattle, pigs, and equines. Toroviruses, except equine torovirus, are difficult to propagate in cell culture; indeed, to date, only the Aichi/2004 strain of bovine torovirus (BToV) has been isolated among the human, bovine, and porcine toroviruses. In the present study, four cytopathogenic...
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