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Classification of infectious bursal disease virus into genogroups.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2017
Michel Linda O, Jackwood Daral J
Abstract excerpt
Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) causes infectious bursal disease (IBD), an immunosuppressive disease of poultry. The current classification scheme of IBDV is confusing because it is based on antigenic types (variant and classical) as well as pathotypes. Many of the amino acid changes differentiating these various classifications are found in a hypervariable region of the capsid protein VP2 (hvVP2), the...
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