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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 157, Issue 2, Pages 323-327Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-011-1151-4
Keywords
Sheep astrovirus; Domestic sheep; Feces; Species
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [K83013]
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- NHLBI [E01HL083254]
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The family Astroviridae consists of two genera, Avastrovirus and Mamastrovirus, whose members are associated with gastroenteritis in avian and mammalian hosts, respectively. We serendipitously identified a novel ovine astrovirus in a fecal specimen from a domestic sheep (Ovis aries) in Hungary by viral metagenomic analysis. Sequencing of the fragment indicated that it was an ORF1b/ORF2/3'UTR sequence, and it has been submitted to the GenBank database as ovine astrovirus type 2 (OAstV-2/Hungary/2009) with accession number JN592482. The unique sequence characteristics and the phylogenetic position of OAstV-2 suggest that genetically divergent lineages of astroviruses exist in sheep.
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