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Genotyping of turkey coronavirus field isolates from various geographic locations in the Unites States based on the spike gene.
Archives of virology - 1 Nov 2015
Chen Yi-Ning, Loa Chien Chang, Ababneh Mustafa Mohammed-Khair, Wu Ching Ching, Lin Tsang Long
Abstract excerpt
Turkey flocks have experienced turkey coronaviral enteritis sporadically in the United States since the 1990s. Twenty-four field isolates of turkey coronavirus (TCoV) from multiple states in the United States were recovered from 1994 to 2010 to determine the genetic relationships among them. The entire spike (S) gene of each TCoV isolate was amplified and sequenced. Pairwise comparisons were performed using the...
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