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Coronavirus
Research from S.G. Genova and co-researchers in the area of coronavirus described
December 17th, 2008
"Antigenic group 2 coronavirus was detected in a fecal sample of an adult alpaca by reverse transcription-PCR," scientists in the United States report. "The presence of alpaca coronavirus (ApCoV) in the small intestine was demonstrated by immune histochemistry with an antinucleocapsid monoclonal antibody that reacts with group 2 coronaviruses. Other common causes of diarrhea in adult camelids were not detected," wrote S.G. Genova and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "We conclude that nutritional stress may have predisposed the alpaca to severe ApCoV infection." Genova and colleagues published their study in Clinical and...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-17)
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