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Epidemiological investigation and genome analysis of duck circovirus in Southern China.
Virologica Sinica - 1 Oct 2011
Wan Chun-He, Fu Guang-Hua, Shi Shao-Hua, Cheng Long-Fei, Chen Hong-Mei, Peng Chun-Xiang, Lin Su, Huang Yu
Abstract excerpt
Duck circovirus (DuCV), a potential immunosuppressive virus, was investigated in Southern China from March 2006 to December 2009 by using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method. In this study, a total of 138 sick or dead duck samples from 18 different farms were examined with an average DuCV infection rate of ∼35%. It was found that ducks between the ages of 40∼60 days were more susceptible to DuCV. There...
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