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Viral replication kinetics and in vitro cytopathogenicity of parental and reassortant strains of bluetongue virus serotype 1, 6 and 8.
Veterinary microbiology - 25 Jun 2014
Coetzee Peter, Van Vuuren Moritz, Stokstad Maria, Myrmel Mette, van Gennip René G P, van Rijn Piet A, Venter Estelle H
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Bluetongue virus (BTV), a segmented dsRNA virus, is the causative agent of bluetongue (BT), an economically important viral haemorrhagic disease of ruminants. Bluetongue virus can exchange its genome segments in mammalian or insect cells that have been co-infected with more than one strain of the virus. This process, may potentially give rise to the generation of novel reassortant strains that may differ from...
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