First description of hepacivirus and pegivirus infection in domestic Horses in China: A study in guangdong province, heilongjiang province and Hong Kong district

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Lu, Gang ^a,b   Sun, Lingshuang ^a,b   Xu, Tao ^a,b   He, Dong ^a,b   Wang, Zengchao ^a,b   Ou, Shudan ^a,b   Jia, Kun ^a,b   Yuan, Liguo ^a,b   Li, Shoujun ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Lab of Compreh Prev and Contr for Severe Clin Anim Dis of Guangdong Prov   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5B; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC HORSE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPACIVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEGIVIRUS; PEGIVIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; GENETICS; HEPATITIS C; HONG KONG; HORSE; HORSE DISEASES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HONG KONG; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84969761013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155662     Document Type: Article

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