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Discriminating the eight genotypes of the porcine circovirus type 2 with TaqMan-based real-time PCR.
Virology journal - 7 Apr 2021
Link Ellen Kathrin, Eddicks Matthias, Nan Liangliang, Ritzmann Mathias, Sutter Gerd, Fux Robert
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BACKGROUND: The porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is divided into eight genotypes including the previously described genotypes PCV2a to PCV2f and the two new genotypes PCV2g and PCV2h. PCV2 genotyping has become an important task in molecular epidemiology and to advance research on the prophylaxis and pathogenesis of PCV2 associated diseases. Standard genotyping of PCV2 is based on the sequencing of the viral...
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