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SUBMITTER: Naylor MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC130832 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Naylor Matthew J MJ Walia Charanjiv S CS McOrist Steven S Lehrbach Philip R PR Deane Elizabeth M EM Harrison Gavan A GA
Journal of clinical microbiology 20020901 9
Canine coronavirus (CCV) UWSMN-1 was originally identified from an outbreak of fatal gastroenteritis in breeding colonies. In this report, we examined whether UWSMN-1 represents a novel divergent strain or is the result of recombination events between canine and feline coronavirus strains. Sequencing of various regions of the spike and polymerase genes confirms that UWSMN-1 is widely divergent from other CCV and feline coronavirus strains. These data raise the possibility that this strain is the ...[more]