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Faecal virome of cats in an animal shelter.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Nov 2014
Zhang Wen, Li Linlin, Deng Xutao, Kapusinszky Beatrix, Pesavento Patricia A, Delwart Eric
Abstract excerpt
We describe the metagenomics-derived feline enteric virome in the faeces of 25 cats from a single shelter in California. More than 90 % of the recognizable viral reads were related to mammalian viruses and the rest to bacterial viruses. Eight viral families were detected: Astroviridae, Coronaviridae, Parvoviridae, Circoviridae, Herpesviridae, Anelloviridae, Caliciviridae and Picobirnaviridae. Six previously known...
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