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Antigenic and genomic properties of equine rotavirus strain CH3 isolated in Japan were studied by cross-neutralization tests and nucleotide sequence determination of the VP4 and VP7 genes. It was shown that the strain CH3 belongs to G14 and shares VP4 genotype with strain H2.
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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper appear in the DDBJ, EMBL and GeneBank nucleotide sequence detabases under the accession numbers D25228 (VP4 of strain CH3) and D25229 (VP7 of strain CH3).
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Takagi, M., Taniguchi, K., Urasawa, T. et al. Characterization of a G14 equine rotavirus (strain CH3) isolated in Japan. Archives of Virology 139, 209–215 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01309466
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