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Molecular detection of novel picornaviruses in chickens and turkeys.
Virus genes - 1 Apr 2012
Farkas Tibor, Fey Brittney, Hargitt Edwin, Parcells Mark, Ladman Brian, Murgia Maria, Saif Yehia
Abstract excerpt
Fecal specimens, including swabs and litter extracts, collected from chickens, domestic ducks, turkeys, and Canadian geese were tested using degenerate primers targeting regions encoding for conserved amino acid motifs (YGDD and DY(T/S)(R/K/G)WDST) in calicivirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Similar motifs are also present in other RNA viruses. Two fecal specimens and 18 litter extracts collected from chickens...
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