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High Prevalence and Putative Lineage Maintenance of Avian Coronaviruses in Scandinavian Waterfowl.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Wille Michelle, Muradrasoli Shaman, Nilsson Anna, Järhult Josef D
Abstract excerpt
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are found in a wide variety of wild and domestic animals, and constitute a risk for zoonotic and emerging infectious disease. In poultry, the genetic diversity, evolution, distribution and taxonomy of some coronaviruses have been well described, but little is known about the features of CoVs in wild birds. In this study we screened 764 samples from 22 avian species of the orders Anseriformes...
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