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Molecular identification and characterization of a new type of bovine enterovirus
Shahzad Shaukat1, Mehar Angez, Muhammad Masroor Alam
1Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|April 12, 2012
Abstract:
Bovine enteroviruses belong to the family Picornaviridae. Little is known about their pathogenic potential; however, they cause asymptomatic infections in cattle and are excreted in feces. In the present study, viruses isolated from environmental samples were sequenced. According to phylogenetic analyses and standard picornavirus nomenclature, these isolates constitute a new type of bovine enterovirus serogroup A.
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