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Epidemiological survey and molecular characterization of avian infectious bronchitis virus in Brazil between 2003 and 2009.
Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A - 1 Apr 2011
Chacon Jorge Luis, Rodrigues Juliana Nogueira, Assayag Junior Mario Sergio, Peloso Camila, Pedroso Antonio C, Ferreira Antonio J Piantino
Abstract excerpt
As part of an epidemiological study of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) in Brazil, 252 samples from IBV-suspect flocks were tested and the IBV-positive samples were analysed by sequencing of hypervariable regions 1 and 2 of the S1 gene. A high prevalence of IBV variants was found and the sequence analysis of 41 samples revealed a high molecular similarity among the Brazilian isolates (from 90.2 to 100% and from...
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