Article
Enteric viruses nucleic acids distribution along the digestive tract of rhesus macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea
2021-06-24
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic chronic diarrhea (ICD) is a common clinical condition in captive rhesus macaques, claiming 33% of medical culls (i.e. deaths unrelated to research). Using viral metagenomics we characterized the eukaryotic virome in digestive tract tissues collected at necropsy from nine animals with ICD. We show the presence of multiple viruses in the Parvoviridae and Picornaviridae family. We then compared the distr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dd4dc398-0d16-5e76-8690-c5c8eae6eaa5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.24.449827
