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A Rapid Strategy for the Isolation of New Faustoviruses from Environmental Samples Using Vermamoeba vermiformis.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE - 4 Jun 2016
Bou Khalil Jacques Yaacoub, Andreani Julien, Raoult Didier, La Scola Bernard
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The isolation of giant viruses is of great interest in this new era of virology, especially since these giant viruses are related to protists. Giant viruses may be potentially pathogenic for many species of protists. They belong to the recently described order of Megavirales. The new lineage Faustovirus that has been isolated from sewage samples is distantly related to the mammalian pathogen African swine fever...
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