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Emergence of a novel genotype of avian infectious bronchitis virus in Egypt.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2012
Abdel-Moneim Ahmed S, Afifi Manal A, El-Kady Magdy F
Abstract excerpt
Five avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) isolates were isolated from broiler chickens showing respiratory and renal lesions. The isolated strains were characterized by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and sequence analysis of the hypervariable region 3 of the S1 spike glycoprotein gene. Three out of five isolates formed a distinct phylogenetic group with the Egypt/Beni-Suef/01 variant (Var 1)....
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