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Ljungan virus is endemic in rodents in the UK.
Archives of virology - 1 Mar 2014
Salisbury Anne-Marie, Begon Michael, Dove Winifred, Niklasson Bo, Stewart James P
Abstract excerpt
Ljungan virus is a recently identified member of the family Picornaviridae that was isolated from bank voles in Sweden. LjV has been associated with [corrected] type 1 diabetes-like symptoms and myocarditis in bank voles (Myodes glareolus), and it has been suggested that it has zoonotic potential. Here, we show for the first time that Ljungan virus is prevalent (20-27 % positive by PCR) in four species of UK...
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