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Detection and molecular epidemiology of ferlaviruses in farmed snakes with respiratory disease in Guangxi Province, China.
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc - 1 May 2020
Su Jie-Yu, Li Jun, Que Teng-Cheng, Chen Hai-Lan, Zeng Yun
Abstract excerpt
We screened 104 snakes with respiratory disease, collected from 52 snake farms in Guangxi Province, China, for pathogens. Ferlaviruses were detected in 70 of 104 lung samples by reverse-transcription PCR; 34 of 52 of the snake farms were positive for ferlaviruses. No reovirus, adenovirus, sunshine virus, or nidovirus was detected in any of the snakes. We obtained 96 bacterial isolates from snake organs, of which...
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