Isolation and characterization of a variant duck orthoreovirus causing spleen necrosis in Peking ducks, China

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Since December 2017, an infectious disease has caused economic hardship for duck farms and breeding ducks in many regions of China. This disease characterized by spleen necrosis and swelling, is due to a variant strain of duck orthoreovirus (DRV) (Duck/N-DRV-XT18/China/2018), which we isolated from the spleen of diseased ducks. After isolating the virus, we used next-generation sequencing technology to determine...

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