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Full-genome based molecular characterization of encephalitis-associated bovine astroviruses.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2016
Bouzalas Ilias G, Wüthrich Daniel, Selimovic-Hamza Senija, Drögemüller Cord, Bruggmann Rémy, Seuberlich Torsten
Abstract excerpt
Novel types of astrovirus have been identified recently in association with neurological disease in cattle. Among those viruses is bovine astrovirus CH13 (BoAstV CH13) that has been identified in Switzerland in a cow with encephalitis. Molecular testing by a combination of reverse transcription (RT-) PCR and in situ hybridization (ISH) indicated that astrovirus infection accounts for around one quarter of viral...
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