High prevalence and genetic heterogeneity of porcine astroviruses in domestic pigs

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 390-392

  Brnić, Dragan ^a   Jemeršić, Lorena ^a   Keros, Tomislav ^a   Prpić, Jelena ^a  

^a CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Faeces; Genetic heterogeneity; Pig; Porcine astrovirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; VIRUS DNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLICON; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BACKYARD HOLDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROATIA; DOMESTIC PIG; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL HOLDING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PORCINE ASTROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PURIFICATION; ANIMAL; ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PIG; SWINE DISEASES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ASTROVIRIDAE; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROATIA; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84927802288     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: 15322971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2014.08.015     Document Type: Article

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