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Development and Validation of a Quantitative PCR Method for Equid Herpesvirus-2 Diagnostics in Respiratory Fluids
Published on: March 17, 2016
First detection of equine coronavirus (ECoV) in Europe
Fabien Miszczak1, Vincent Tesson2, Nathalie Kin2
1Normandie Univ, France; UNICAEN, EA4655, U2RM, F-14032 Caen, France; Department of Virology, University Hospital, F-14033 Caen, France; Frank Duncombe Laboratory-LABEO, F-14053 Caen, France.
Abstract:
Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is involved mainly in enteric infections. Following the recent description of ECoV in 2000, this study reports for the first time the presence of ECoV in France and, on a wider scale, in Europe. ECoV was molecularly detected from diarrheic and respiratory specimens. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that European strains are most closely related to the reference North American strain (ECoV-NC99) than the Asian strain (ECoV-Tokachi09).
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