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AVIAN PATHOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 438-444Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03079450410001724067
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Polymerase chain reaction and sequencing were used to analyse goose parvovirus field isolates and vaccine strains. Two fragments of the genome were amplified. Fragment A represents a region of VP3 gene, while fragment B represents a region upstream of the VP3 gene, encompassing part of the VP1 gene. In the region of fragment A the deduced amino acid sequence of the strains was identical, therefore differentiation among strains could be done only at the nucleotide level, which resulted in the formation of three groups: Hungarian, West-European and Asian strains. In the region of fragment B, separation of groups could be done by both nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence level. The nucleotide sequences resulted in the same groups as for fragment A but with a different clustering pattern among the Hungarian strains. Within the Hungarian group most of the recent field isolates fell into one cluster, very closely related or identical to each other, indicating a very slow evolutionary change. The attenuated strains and field isolates from 1979/80 formed a separate cluster. When vaccine strains and field isolates were compared, two specific amino acid differences were found that can be considered as possible markers for vaccinal strains. Sequence analysis of fragment B seems to be a suitable method for differentiation of attenuated vaccine strains from virulent strains.
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