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Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Vaccines in the Context of Current Molecular Epidemiology.
Viruses - 6 May 2017
Karuppannan Anbu K, Opriessnig Tanja
Abstract excerpt
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is an economically important swine pathogen and, although small, it has the highest evolution rate among DNA viruses. Since the discovery of PCV2 in the late 1990s, this minimalistic virus with a 1.7 kb single-stranded DNA genome and two indispensable genes has become one of the most important porcine pathogens, and presently is subjected to the highest volume of prophylactic...
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