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Recombinant Goose Circoviruses Circulating in Domesticated and Wild Geese in Poland.
Viruses - 2 Mar 2018
Stenzel Tomasz, Dziewulska Daria, Muhire Brejnev M, Hartnady Penelope, Kraberger Simona, Martin Darren P, Varsani Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Circoviruses are circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses that infect a variety of animals, both domestic and wild. Circovirus infection in birds is associated with immunosuppression and this in turn predisposes the infected animals to secondary infections that can lead to mortality. Farmed geese (Anser anser) in many parts of the world are infected with circoviruses. The majority of the current genomic...
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