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Newcastle Disease Viruses Causing Recent Outbreaks Worldwide Show Unexpectedly High Genetic Similarity to Historical Virulent Isolates from the 1940s.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2016
Dimitrov Kiril M, Lee Dong-Hun, Williams-Coplin Dawn, Olivier Timothy L, Miller Patti J, Afonso Claudio L
Abstract excerpt
Virulent strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) cause Newcastle disease (ND), a devastating disease of poultry and wild birds. Phylogenetic analyses clearly distinguish historical isolates (obtained prior to 1960) from currently circulating viruses of class II genotypes V, VI, VII, and XII through XVIII. Here, partial and complete genomic sequences of recent virulent isolates of genotypes II and IX from China,...
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