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Development and validation of nucleic acid tests to diagnose Aleutian mink disease virus.
Journal of virological methods - 1 May 2020
Virtanen Jenni, Aaltonen Kirsi, Vapalahti Olli, Sironen Tarja
Abstract excerpt
Aleutian disease (AD), caused by Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV), causes significant welfare problems to mink, and financial losses to the farmers. As there is no vaccine or treatment available, reliable diagnostics is important for disease control. Here, we set up a probe-based real-time PCR (NS1-probe-PCR) to detect all strains of AMDV. PCR was validated and compared to two other real-time PCR methods...
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