Article
Chickens host diverse picornaviruses originated from potential interspecies transmission with recombination.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 2014
Lau Susanna K P, Woo Patrick C Y, Yip Cyril C Y, Li Kenneth S M, Fan Rachel Y Y, Bai Ru, Huang Yi, Chan Kwok-Hung, Yuen Kwok-Yung
Abstract excerpt
While chickens are an important reservoir for emerging pathogens such as avian influenza viruses, little is known about the diversity of picornaviruses in poultry. We discovered a previously unknown diversity of picornaviruses in chickens in Hong Kong. Picornaviruses were detected in 87 cloacal a...
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