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SUBMITTER: Heffron AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599636 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heffron Anna S AS Lauck Michael M Somsen Elizabeth D ED Townsend Elizabeth C EC Bailey Adam L AL Sosa Megan M Eickhoff Jens J Capuano Iii Saverio S Newman Christina M CM Kuhn Jens H JH Mejia Andres A Simmons Heather A HA O'Connor David H DH
Microorganisms 20200930 10
From 2010 to 2015, 73 common marmosets (<i>Callithrix jacchus</i>) housed at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) were diagnosed postmortem with lymphocytic enterocolitis. We used unbiased deep-sequencing to screen the blood of deceased enterocolitis-positive marmosets for viruses. In five out of eight common marmosets with lymphocytic enterocolitis, we discovered a novel pegivirus not present in ten matched, clinically normal controls. The novel virus, which we named Southwest ...[more]