Fecal, oral, blood and skin virome of laboratory rabbits.
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SUBMITTER: Xiao Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546134 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
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Fecal, oral, blood and skin virome of laboratory rabbits.
Xiao Yuqing Y Wang Hao H Feng Lei L Pan Jiamin J Chen Zeyu Z Wang Huiling H Yang Shixing S Shen Quan Q Wang Xiaochun X Shan Tongling T Zhang Wen W
Archives of virology 20201009 12
Here, we investigated the fecal, oral, blood, and skin virome of 10 laboratory rabbits using a viral metagenomic method. In the oral samples, we detected a novel polyomavirus (RabPyV), and phylogenetic analysis based on the large T antigen, VP1 and VP2 regions indicated that the novel strain might have undergone a recombination event. Recombination analysis based on related genomes confirmed that RabPyV is a multiple recombinant between rodent-like and avian-like polyomaviruses. In fecal samples ...[more]
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