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Phylogeny and prevalence of kobuviruses in dogs and cats in the UK.
Veterinary microbiology - 28 Jun 2013
Carmona-Vicente N, Buesa J, Brown P A, Merga J Y, Darby A C, Stavisky J, Sadler L, Gaskell R M, Dawson S, Radford A D
Abstract excerpt
The kobuviruses represent an emerging genus in the Picornaviridae. Here we have used next generation sequencing and conventional approaches to identify the first canine kobuvirus (CaKoV) from outside the USA. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that a single lineage genotype of CaKoV now exists in Europe and the USA with 94% nucleotide similarity in the coding region. CaKoV was only identified in a single case from a...
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