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Characterization of a new dog isolate of canine distemper virus from China.
Acta virologica - 1 Jan 2011
Qiao J, Meng Q, Chen C, Xia X, Cai X, Ren Y, Zhang H
Abstract excerpt
Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a highly contagious pathogen of dogs. Vaccination is an effective way to protect dogs from CDV infection, but occasionally fails. In the present study, a wild type (wt) CDV, named XJ2, was isolated from a dead vaccinated dog. The hemagglutinin (H) gene of the XJ2 was amplified and analyzed for the molecular characteristics including N-glycosylation sites, phylogenesis,...
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