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Identification of a Novel Enterovirus Species in Rhesus Macaque in China.
Scientific reports - 22 Jun 2016
Ao Yuan-Yun, Yu Jie-Mei, Zhang Cui-Yuan, Xin Yun-Yun, Li Li-Li, Duan Zhao-Jun
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies of Enterovirus (EV) in nonhuman primates (NHPs), which could act as a source of future emerging human viral diseases, have boosted interest in the search for novel EVs. Here, a highly divergent strain of EV, tentatively named SEV-gx, was identified by viral metagenomic analysis from stool samples of rhesus macaques in China. In total, 27 of 280 (9.6%) faecal samples from rhesus macaques were...
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