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Influenza A virus subtype H9N2 infection disrupts the composition of intestinal microbiota of chickens
1 Dec 2017
Abstract excerpt
The impact of low pathogenic influenza viruses such as subtype H9N2, which infect the respiratory and the gastrointestinal tracts of chickens, on microbial composition are not known. Twenty-day-old specific pathogen-free chickens were assigned to two treatment groups, control (uninfected) and H9N2-infected (challenged via the oral-nasal route). Fecal genomic DNA was extracted, and the V3-V4 regions of the 16S...
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