Porcine Torque teno virus: Determination of viral genomic loads by genogroup-specific multiplex rt-PCR, detection of frequent multiple infections with genogroups 1 or 2, and establishment of viral full-length sequences

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 202-212

  Gallei, Andreas ^a   Pesch, Stefan ^a   Esking, Wiebke Schulze ^a   Keller, Christoph ^a   Ohlinger, Volker Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Full length sequence; Multiple infection; Pig; Real time PCR; Torque teno virus (TTV)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC PIG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE DISEASE; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS INFECTION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

ANELLOVIRUS; ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953120842     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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