Detection of a novel astrovirus in brain tissue of mink suffering from shaking mink syndrome by use of viral metagenomics

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4392-4396

  Blomström, Anne Lie ^a   Widén, Frederik ^b   Hammer, Anne Sofie ^c   Belák, Sándor ^a,b   Berg, Mikael ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; ASTROVIRUS INFECTION; ATAXIA; BRAIN TISSUE; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITIS; GAIT DISORDER; METAGENOMICS; MINK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAKING MINK SYNDROME; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA;

ANIMALS; ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MALE; MAMASTROVIRUS; METAGENOMICS; MINK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ASTROVIRIDAE; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS; MINK ASTROVIRUS; MUSTELA;

EID: 78650057997     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01040-10     Document Type: Article

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