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Molecular study of porcine circovirus type 2 circulating in Portugal.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Henriques Ana M, Duarte Margarida, Fagulha Teresa, Ramos Fernanda, Barros Sílvia C, Luís Tiago, Fevereiro Miguel
Abstract excerpt
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) belongs to the genus Circovirus of the Circoviridae family and has been associated with a disease named postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). In Portugal the disease caused severe problems mainly between 1995 and 2003, but is nowadays less evident probably as the result of vaccination programmes initiated in 2007. This study reports the molecular analysis of 22 PCV2...
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