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A nationwide database linking information on the hosts with sequence data of their virus strains: A useful tool for the eradication of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) in Switzerland.
Virus research - 15 Jun 2016
Stalder Hanspeter, Hug Corinne, Zanoni Reto, Vogt Hans-Rudolf, Peterhans Ernst, Schweizer Matthias, Bachofen Claudia
Abstract excerpt
Pestiviruses infect a wide variety of animals of the order Artiodactyla, with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) being an economically important pathogen of livestock globally. BVDV is maintained in the cattle population by infecting fetuses early in gestation and, thus, by generating persistently infected (PI) animals that efficiently transmit the virus throughout their lifetime. In 2008, Switzerland started a...
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