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Identification of a new Newcastle disease virus isolate from Indonesia represents an ancestral lineage of class II genotype XIII.
Virus genes - 1 Aug 2013
Forrester Naomi L, Widen Steve G, Wood Thomas G, Travassos da Rosa Amelia P, Ksiazek Thomas G, Vasilakis Nikos, Tesh Robert B
Abstract excerpt
An unknown virus was isolated from a mosquito pool collected in Jakarta during routine surveillance in 1979. Analysis of the sample using the Illumina platform resulted in the identification of a Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolate. The sequence of the isolate indicated that it is an ancestral lineage of class II, genotype XIII. The source of the isolate is unusual, as newcastle disease virus is not believed to...
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