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SUBMITTER: Kamomae M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5447982 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kamomae Masahiro M Kameyama Mamoru M Ishii Jun J Nabe Mikoto M Ogura Yuji Y Iseki Hiroshi H Yamamoto Yu Y Mase Masaji M
The Journal of veterinary medical science 20170411 5
In June 2015, a highly fatal and acute disease broke out in a duckling farm in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The birds exhibited poor growth, reduced movement, lying in a dorsal recumbent position, depression, lethargy, ataxia and opisthotonus, with a high mortality rate of approximately 76%. By performing a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using primers specific for duck hepatitis A virus type 1 (DHAV-1), we obtained the PCR products of a predicted size. The nucleotide sequen ...[more]