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Metagenomic analysis of viromes of dromedary camel fecal samples reveals large number and high diversity of circoviruses and picobirnaviruses.
Virology - 1 Dec 2014
Woo Patrick C Y, Lau Susanna K P, Teng Jade L L, Tsang Alan K L, Joseph Marina, Wong Emily Y M, Tang Ying, Sivakumar Saritha, Bai Ru, Wernery Renate, Wernery Ulrich, Yuen Kwok-Yung
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The recent discovery of Middle East Respiratory Coronavirus and another novel dromedary camel coronavirus UAE-HKU23 in dromedaries has boosted interest in search of novel viruses in dromedaries. In this study, fecal samples of 203 dromedaries in Dubai were pooled and deep sequenced. Among the 7330 assembled viral contigs, 1970 were assigned to mammalian viruses. The largest groups of these contigs matched to...
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