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Emerging lethal infectious bronchitis coronavirus variants with multiorgan tropism.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Mar 2020
Li Yao-Tsun, Chen Ting-Chih, Lin Shu-Yi, Mase Masaji, Murakami Shin, Horimoto Taisuke, Chen Hui-Wen
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Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes respiratory diseases in chickens and poses an economic threat to the poultry industry worldwide. Despite vaccine use, there have been field outbreaks of IBV in Taiwan. This study aimed to characterize the emerging IBV variants circulating in Taiwan. The analysis of the structural protein genes showed that these variants emerged through frequent recombination events among...
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