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High detection rates and genetic diversity of picobirnaviruses (PBVs) in pigs on St. Kitts Island: Identification of a porcine PBV strain closely related to simian and human PBVs.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2020
Joycelyn Soh Jiaying, Ng Agnes, Kleymann Alyssa, Malik Yashpal S, Kobayashi Nobumichi, Ghosh Souvik
Abstract excerpt
We report here high rates (75.38%, 49/65) of detection of genogroup I (GI) PBVs in diarrheic pigs on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. High quality gene segment-2 sequences encoding a significant region (~350 amino acid (aa) residues) of the putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) were obtained for 23 PBV strains. The porcine PBV strains from St. Kitts exhibited high genetic diversity among themselves...
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