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Update on canine distemper virus (CDV) strains of Arctic-like lineage detected in dogs in Italy.
30 Sept 2018
Abstract excerpt
Canine distemper virus (CDV) is the etiologic agent of distemper in dogs. It exhibits an elevated potential of crossing species barriers, infecting a wide range of wild and domestic carnivores. Of its encoding genes, hemagglutinin (H) shows high heterogeneity, and it was used to determine the relationship between CDV strains due to its variability and key role in determining cell tropism, host shift, and in...
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