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Emergence of a Distinct Picobirnavirus Genotype Circulating in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Respiratory Illness.
Viruses - 17 Dec 2021
Berg Michael G, Forberg Kenn, Perez Lester J, Luk Ka-Cheung, Meyer Todd V, Cloherty Gavin A
Abstract excerpt
Picobirnaviruses (PBV) are found in a wide range of hosts and typically associated with gastrointestinal infections in immunocompromised individuals. Here, a divergent PBV genome was assembled from a patient hospitalized for acute respiratory illness (ARI) in Colombia. The RdRp protein branched with sequences previously reported in patients with ARI from Cambodia and China. Sputa from hospitalized individuals (n...
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