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Molecular detection of kobuviruses in European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Italy

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Kobuvirus RNA was found in 6.6 % (13/198) of stool specimens from roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) captured during the regular hunting season. Upon sequence analysis of a fragment of the 3D gene, nine strains displayed the highest nucleotide sequence identity (91.2-97.4 %) to bovine kobuviruses previously detected in either diarrhoeic or asymptomatic calves. Interestingly, four strains were genetically related to the newly discovered caprine kobuviruses (84.2-87.6 % nucleotide identity) identified in black goats in Korea.

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This work was financed by grants from Progetto di Ricerca Corrente IZS PLV 20/12 “Indagine sulla presenza di virus enterici emergenti con potenziale rischio zoonosico in suidi e ruminanti selvatici”.

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  1. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Piazza Aldo Moro, 45, 64100, Teramo, Italy

    Barbara Di Martino, Federica Di Profio, Irene Melegari, Elisabetta Di Felice & Fulvio Marsilio

  2. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, della Liguria e della Valle d’Aosta, Struttura Complessa Valle d’Aosta con annesso Centro di Referenza Nazionale per le Malattie degli Animali Selvatici (CeRMAS), Valle d’Aosta, Italy

    Serena Robetto, Cristina Guidetti & Riccardo Orusa

  3. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Università Aldo Moro di Bari, Valenzano, Italy

    Vito Martella

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Di Martino, B., Di Profio, F., Melegari, I. et al. Molecular detection of kobuviruses in European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Italy. Arch Virol 160, 2083–2086 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2464-5

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