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SUBMITTER: Marawan MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5447981 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marawan Marawan A MA Mekata Hirohisa H Hayashi Takumi T Sekiguchi Satoshi S Kirino Yumi Y Horii Yoichiro Y Moustafa Abdel-Moneim M AM Arnaout Faysal K FK Galila El Sayed M ESM Norimine Junzo J
The Journal of veterinary medical science 20170323 5
To understand how the latest dominant bovine leukemia virus (BLV) strains were introduced and spread in the Miyazaki prefecture, we collected blood samples from 3 geographic areas (north, central and south) and carried out sequence analysis of the BLV env gene. Two genotypes, genotype I, and III, were identified and the majority of the strains belonged to genotype I (71/74). To clarify a route of BLV introduction, we divided the strains into 20 subgenotypes based on their nucleotide sequences an ...[more]