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Outbreak and genotyping of canine distemper virus in captive Siberian tigers and red pandas.
Scientific reports - 15 Aug 2017
Zhang He, Shan Fen, Zhou Xia, Li Bing, Zhai Jun-Qiong, Zou Shu-Zhan, Wu Meng-Fan, Chen Wu, Zhai Shao-Lun, Luo Man-Lin
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In this study, four canine distemper virus (CDV) strains were isolated from captive Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) and red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) during two separate CDV outbreaks in a zoo in Guangdong province, China. Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analyses based on the full-length hemagglutinin (H) and fusion (F) genes showed that they were closely identical to genotype Asia-1. Prior to...
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