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Bluetongue disease and the molecular epidemiology of viruses from the western United States.
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases - 1 Jun 1996
Osburn B I, de Mattos C A, de Mattos C C, MacLachlan N J
Abstract excerpt
Prototype and field isolates of United States bluetongue viruses were evaluated for genetic heterogeneity by sequence analyses. Prototype viruses BTV 2, 10, 11, 13 and 17 from the United States, BTV 10 vaccine virus, and field isolates of BTV 10 and 17 from California were analyzed. Gene segment 2 from BTV 10 and 17 isolated in 1980-81 and 1990 was sequenced along with gene segment 9 from BTV 10 isolates. The...
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