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Genome characterisation of two Ljungan virus isolates from wild bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in Sweden.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2015
Pounder Kieran C, Watts Phillip C, Niklasson Bo, Kallio Eva R K, Marston Denise A, Fooks Anthony R, Begon Michael, McElhinney Lorraine M
Abstract excerpt
Ljungan virus (LV) (family Picornaviridae, genus Parechovirus) is a suspected zoonotic pathogen with associations to human disease in Sweden. LV is a single-stranded RNA virus with a positive sense genome. There are five published Ljungan virus strains, three isolated from Sweden and two from America, and are classified into four genotypes. A further two strains described here were isolated from wild bank voles...
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