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SUBMITTER: Luna L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7127686 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luna L L Brandão P E PE Maturrano L L Rosadio R R Silva F D F FDF Soares R M RM Gregori F F
Small ruminant research : the journal of the International Goat Association 20151024
Genetic sequences highly related to Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) were detected in fecal samples from Peruvian 1-3 week old alpaca crias located on six farms in Puno department, some of which shared pastures with cattle. A total of 60 samples were screened for coronavirus using a nested PCR amplification of a fragment of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene. Sequences from 11 positive samples were highly similar to the Kakegawa, Quebec and Mebus BCoV strains (99.5-100.0%) and 99.2% identical ...[more]