Abstract
Calf diarrhoea is one of the major problems in cattle farming with high morbidity and mortality in herds. Two enteric viruses, bovine rotavirus (BRV) and bovine coronavirus (BCoV), are the leading cause of gastroenteritis in young calves, whereas picobirnaviruses (PBVs) are often associated with diarrhoea. In the present study, the faecal specimens of 127 diarrhoeic bovines (less than 1-month-old) were employed to investigate the infection frequencies of these three pathogens. Results indicated that frequencies of BRV and BCoV in diarrhoeic calves were 38.58% and 29.92%, respectively. The 7.08% of bovine calf samples (9 out of 127) were found to be positive for PBV genogroup I. Sequence analysis further revealed the high genetic heterogeneity within representative PBV sequences. Additionally, both PBV-BCoV (n = 2) and BCoV-BRV-PBV (n = 1) co-infections were detected in bovine calves for the first time. Consequently, our findings pointed out the highly divergent nature of PBVs without regard to exact host or territory and the occasional co-existence with other enteric agents.
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Introduction
Picobirnaviruses (PBVs) are recently emergent viruses that were first discovered in human and rat stools by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) in the late 1980s (Pereira et al., 1988a, 1988b). Since then, the virus has been reported in a number of species, both with and without symptoms, including domestic and wild mammals (Takiuchi et al., 2016; Navarro et al., 2017; Malik et al., 2018), avians (Ribeiro Silva et al., 2014; Masachessi et al., 2015; Verma et al., 2015) and reptiles (Fregolente et al., 2009). PBVs have been defined as opportunistic enteric—and less likely—respiratory pathogens of animals. PBVs are mostly bi-segmented, double-stranded RNA viruses, classified under the Picobirnaviridae family (Delmas et al., 2019). Segment 1 (L gene) has an RNA structure 2.2 to 2.7 kbp in length and encodes viral capsid proteins, while the 1.2–1.9 kbp segment 2 (S gene) expresses RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), which is crucial for genome replication (Kattoor et al., 2016; Malik et al., 2017). Recently, efforts have been made to characterise the highly divergent family Picobirnaviridae, and segment 2-based classification has been the most widely utilised approach (Knox et al., 2018). According to this method, PBVs fall into two main genogroups (GI–II), and so far, the majority of known strains have been classified into the GI genogroups (Malik et al., 2014b, 2014a, 2017).
PBVs have been reported to be involved in multiple infections, with astroviruses, adenoviruses, sapoviruses and rotaviruses identified in humans (Bhattacharya et al., 2007; Giordano et al., 2008; Vu et al., 2019), with the latter also shown to be a common pathogen in co-infections in pigs (Pongsuwanna et al., 1996) and monkeys (Wang et al., 2007). A recent study further demonstrated the co-occurrence of rotaviruses and PBVs in wild birds (Serra et al., 2020). Despite strong evidence, simultaneous PBV infections with other enteric viruses have not been definitively identified in cattle. Bovine rotaviruses have been shown to be a common pathogen in PBV infections (Buzinaro et al., 2003; Mondal et al., 2013; Malik et al., 2014b). Bovine enteric coronavirus (BCoV) is an important viral agent that has a significant impact on neonatal calf diarrhoea (Hodnik et al., 2020). Two independent studies showed that the prevalence of BCoV varied greatly (5.2–39.3%) in Turkey (Hasoksuz et al., 2005; Akgül et al., 2014). It is estimated that the co-existence of BCoV infection may trigger immune system impairment and assist in the replication of other viral agents (Niskanen et al., 2002); however, the potential contribution of BCoV to the PBV infections has remained unknown.
In this study, we retrospectively assessed the maintenance and frequency of PBV infections in diarrhoeic bovine calves. The most common aetiologic viral agents causing gastrointestinal disorders in the Bovinae subfamily—BRV and BCoV—were initially screened using versatile, molecular-based methods. Further analyses focussed on detecting PBVs and evaluating their diverse nature. For this purpose, we implemented molecular detection techniques and performed sequence characterisation and phylogenetic analyses of the sequencing data from the PBV-positive samples. Finally, co-circulation of PBVs with BRV and/or BCoV was interpreted using valid statistical methods to understand the potential interactions of these agents.
Materials and methods
Collection and preparation of samples
During 2017 and 2018, diarrhoeic faecal samples of a hundred and twenty-seven calves from 1- to 30-day-old age were collected from three Middle Anatolian provinces (Sivas, Malatya and Elazig) for this study. Each of the faecal specimens was diluted 10–20% with ice-cold PBS and centrifuged at 3000 × g for 10 min to remove coarse particles. The 250 μl of supernatants was taken from the specimen aliquots for the RNA extraction using GF-1 Viral Nucleic Acid Kit (Vivantis Technologies, Malaysia) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RNA samples were stored at − 80 °C until the reverse transcription process.
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
The cDNA syntheses were carried out in a 25 μl final volume reactions containing 4 μl of RNA extract, 10 mM deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP), 2,5 μl 10 × RT buffer (50 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.3 at 25 °C), 75 mM KCl, 3 mM MgCl2 and 10 mM DTT), 50 ng of the random hexamer, 40 U RNasin, 200 U M-MuLV Reverse-Transcriptase RNase H (Vivantis, Germany). Reverse transcription (RT) reactions were performed at 37 °C for 1 h and RT enzyme was inactivated at 70 °C for 5 min.
All of the samples subjected in this study were preliminarily screened for the existence of two major viral aetiologic agents of the diarrhoea, bovine coronavirus (BCV) and rotavirus (BRV), using modified version of the previously described one-step duplex RT-PCR assay method (Zhu et al., 2011). Pre-designated primer sets were BCoVF and BCoVR targeting partial N gene (597 bp) and BRVF and BRVR targeting partial VP6 gene (383 bp) for bovine coronavirus and rotavirus, respectively. First, PCRs were conducted on cDNA samples using 10 μl of 2 × PCR Master Mix (GeneDireX, Taiwan), 1 μl of each primer (10 μM) and 5 μl of RNase free water. After the PCR mixture was aliquoted into PCR tubes, 1 μl of cDNA template (approx. 200 ng for each sample) was added resulting in a final volume of 20 μl reaction. PCRs were implemented as follows: 94 °C for 5 min, 94 °C 50 s, 55 °C 50 s, 72 °C 60 s and 72 °C 10 min. PCR products were loaded into agarose gel (1.5%) being stained with ethidium bromide (1 μl/ml) and run at 100 V for 30 min. Gels were visualised under the UV light transilluminator (MaestroGen, Taiwan) and 597 and 383 bp bright bands were considered as positive.
Templates were further subjected to PCR reaction by using detection primer set targeting putative RdRp gene previously designed by Rosen et al. (2000), which were PicoB25/PicoB43 and PicoB23/PicoB24 for GI and GII, respectively (Rosen et al., 2000) (for primer sets, see Table 1). Briefly, 40 μl PCR mixture containing 4 μl 10 × PCR buffer, 10 mM dNTP, 10 pmol/μl of each sense/antisense primer, 5 U of Taq DNA polymerase (Vivantis, Germany) and 4 μl of each RT template was prepared. Thereafter, PCR was performed for both genogroups under the following conditions: 1 cycle at 95 °C for 3 min and 40 cycles of 94 °C for 45 s, 50 °C for 45 s and 72 °C for 1 min, followed by a final elongation step of 72 °C for 10 min. The same electrophoresis procedure was repeated for detecting PBV-positive samples. These were further used to amplify ~ 1229 bp partial putative RdRp gene sequence by using the methodology previously described (Malik et al., 2018). For this purpose, PCRs were conducted in a final volume of 50 μl by using 2X Platinum™ Hot Start PCR Master Mix (Thermo Fischer Scientific), 500 nM of each primer and 100 ng of DNA template and were performed in the following conditions: 1 cycle at 98 °C for 1 min and 40 cycles of 98 °C for 10 s, 48 °C for 25 s and 72 °C for 1 min, followed by a final elongation step of 72 °C for 5 min.
Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis
Six of the PBV-positive samples were selected for further analysis. To prepare samples for the sequencing, the DNA amplicons were separated from the gel by scalpel and purified using Wizard SV Gel and PCR Clean-Up System (Promega, Madison, WI). Bidirectional sequencing was performed twice using BigDye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) on an automated sequencer (ABI 3100; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA).
The raw data obtained from the sequencing were quality checked manually using MEGA X 10.1 (Stecher et al., 2020) and assembled into consensus sequences. These nucleotide and amino acid data were entered in BLASTn and BLASTp tools (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) to retrieve the most accurate data from the GenBank. Nucleotide and amino acid diversities for the each of data queries were evaluated separately. Therefore, partial genome and predicted amino acid sequences were determined. Obtained data were deposited in GenBank (accession number: MW717579-MW717582 and OK067326).
Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analyses were conducted using Geneious Prime 2021.1.1 software (Kearse et al., 2012). Nucleic acid and predicted amino acid data were aligned with publicly available sequences provided by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) using MUSCLE (Edgar, 2004). For the phylogenetic analysis, the best fit model for phylogeny was selected using JModelTest (Posada, 2008). Thereafter, phylogenetic tree was built based on 358 residues predicted amino acid sequences of partial putative RdRp gene using PhyML (Guindon et al., 2010) and bootstrapped 100 times. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS software v. 24. Bivariate correlations were computed by Spearman’s correlation analysis with p < 0.05 regarded as significant.
Results
The prevalence of the PRV, BCoV and PBV among diarrhoeic calves
A total of 127 diarrhoeic faecal specimens were investigated to determine the prevalence of BRV, BCoV and PBV using conventional PCR and agarose gel electrophoresis. Our findings revealed that the prevalence of BRV and BCoV in the stool samples was 38.58% (49/127) and 29.92% (38/127), respectively. In addition, BRV–BCoV co-infections occurred in 18.89% of tested bovine calves (24/127).
We utilised two sets of primers, PicoB25/PicoB43 and PicoB23/PicoB24, to detect PBV-positive samples and determine the genogroups, GI and GII, respectively (Rosen et al., 2000). The results demonstrated that 7.08% of the cattle (9/127) were positive for GI, whereas no positivity was detected in the GII genogroups. Of these nine samples, two were also BCoV positive, and one sample was positive for both BCoV and BRV. Positive samples were used for further PCR experimentation to obtain a partial putative RdRp gene sequence (~ 1229 bp), which was successfully amplified from two samples. However, only one sample obtained from the Sivas province (referred to as ‘buzagi 8’) was eligible for further analyses since it had higher coverage.
Pairwise nucleotide comparison of PBV sequencing data
Selected samples were sequenced twice using chain termination methodology. We successfully obtained 201 bp sequence data from four samples and 1074 bp datum from the buzagi 8 strain. Since the genomes are highly variable in the PBV genus, nucleotide sequences were separately queried in the BLASTn database to filter out irrelevant strains from our study. Remaining sequence data demonstrating nucleotide identity above 70% were included in the multiple sequence comparison analysis.
The sequence comparison analysis based on 201 bp nucleotide data showed that Turkish strains exhibited 66.17–99.50% nucleotide identity to each other. The highest identity among samples was detected between Malatya 9 (MW717579) and the Malatya 10 (MW717580) (99.50%), whereas considerable differences were observed in the rest of the strains (varied between 65.17 and 69.65%). The Malatya 9 and Malatya 10 strains demonstrated the highest homology to raw sewage clones from Louisiana (EU938811.1) and Maryland (EU938860.1), which was between 75.12 and 76.62%. Elazig 12 (MW717581) showed 82.09% identity to the isolate PF090203 (KU729761.1), while Sivas 31 (MW717582) was closely related to the isolate C343R (KY120175.1; 94.03%). Based on 1074 bp data, buzagi 8 (OK067326) exhibited the highest relationship to otarine PBVs, specifically isolate PF090302 (KU729763.1), and shared 65.72% nucleotide identity.
Partial putative RdRp derived amino acid sequence analysis
The 66 predicted amino acid residues were determined for each sample to evaluate the potential polymorphisms on the partial putative RdRp protein sequence. Sequence comparison based on the amino acid residues revealed that Malatya 9 and Malatya 10 were identical. Elazig 12 and Sivas 31 presented 66.67% (44 out of 66) and 71.21% (47 out of 66) amino acid similarity, respectively. Furthermore, alignment between the deduced amino acid sequences and the published sequence data demonstrated that Malatya 9 and Malatya 10 showed similarity to two clones obtained from the wastewaters of Louisiana (EU938811.1) and Maryland (EU938860.1), with 84.84% agreement (56 out of 66). Sivas 31 exhibited a significant resemblance to strain C343R (ATY68938.1), presenting 98.48% (65 out of 66) amino acid similarity. Meanwhile, Elazig 12 showed equal similarity to (MG846412.1) and clone c299374 (KY928713.1) (83.33%; 55 out of 66) (Fig. 1).
The 358 amino acid protein sequences deduced from the 1074 bp sequence datum of the buzagi 8 strain (OK067326) were compared with other sequences, and strain ZLY2_ct202 (QQM99864) isolated from a Tibetan antelope showed the highest similarity (267 out of 358 residues). Furthermore, evaluation of multiple-sequence alignment revealed the exact positions of multiple amino acid substitutions in the Turkish sequences. A partial sequence of buzagi 8 was positioned between the 92nd and 453rd amino acids of the putative RdRp gene, where seven catalytic active sites (A–F) of polymerase locate according to the reference strain Hy005102 (YP_239361) (Collier et al., 2016). A, C and F motifs were mostly conserved between buzagi 8 and the consensus sequence of reference strains. However, four motifs (B, D, E and G) exhibited point mutations in their predicted residues (Fig. 2). They were located as follows: F146 in motif G; T334, M338 and M344 in motif B; 374TEV376 in motif D; and F398 and M408 in motif E. In addition, motif A (LVVCTDFSKFDQH) was also preserved among Turkish prototypes.
The phylogenetic tree was constructed using the alignment of 68 amino acid submissions. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that strains were segregated into four different genogroups (GI, GII, PBV-like strains and unassigned PBVs), supported by significant bootstrap values at each clade node. The majority of strains were implicated in the GI genogroup, in which buzagi 8 was clustered with a group of strains isolated from various sources, including isolate WUSTL (AVD54065) from macaques (73.22% similarity), strain ZLY2_ct202 (QMM99864) from Tibetan antelopes (74.86% similarity), isolate PBV/Human/CMRHP49B/CMR/2014 (QAA77653) from humans (72.21% similarity) and isolate Q5A/13 (AIW53314) from chickens (69.65% similarity) (see Fig. 3).
Discussion
Since the PBVs were detected in both diarrhoeic and clinically healthy animals, their potential role is unclear (Takiuchi et al., 2016). Furthermore, in addition to animals, PBVs have been frequently detected in invertebrates or environmental specimens (Symonds et al., 2009; Shi et al., 2016; Guajardo-Leiva et al., 2020). Thus, neither a certain host nor the mechanism of PBV transmission has been ascertained so far. Recent studies demonstrated the existence of a well-conserved prokaryotic ribosome-binding site in the viral genome (Krishnamurthy & Wang, 2018; Boros et al., 2018). In addition, mongoose and bat PBVs actually utilise mitochondrial genetic codes (Yinda et al., 2018; Kleymann et al., 2020). Based on these findings, it is posited that PBVs are viral agents of gut flora (Ghosh & Malik, 2021). This study was designed to retrospectively investigate the PBV infection frequency in diarrhoeic calves. Thus, we initially screened two major viral causative agents of diarrhoeic calves, which revealed the high incidence of rotavirus (38.58%) and coronavirus (29.92%) infection. The prevalence of rotavirus-associated diarrhoea in calves has been reported worldwide, but the results varied in Turkey (8.92–41.17%) depending on the sampling and methodology adopted (Okur Gumusova et al., 2007; Yilmaz, 2016; Aydin and Timurkan, 2018). Similarly, a recent comprehensive study reported BCoV prevalence as 21.95% in diarrhoeic calves in Turkey (Temizkan & Alkan, 2021). Taken together, our study confirmed that BCoV and BRV are dominant viral pathogens contributing to diarrhoea in young calves in Turkey.
Numerous studies have studied human and porcine PBVs worldwide (Pereira et al., 1988a; Rosen et al., 2000; Bhattacharya et al., 2006a, b; Ganesh et al., 2010; Ganesh et al., 2011a, b; Chen et al., 2014; Kylla et al., 2017). The studies focussing on PBVs of the Bovidae family were primarily conducted Brazil (Buzinaro et al., 2003; Takiuchi et al., 2016; Navarro et al., 2018) and India (Ghosh et al., 2009a; Malik et al., 2011, 2013, 2014c). The common results of these studies suggested that the frequency of PBVs varied marginally and ranged between 0.69 and 23.4%. Furthermore, the majority of identified strains were classified into the GI genogroup, whereas two GII-classified isolates have been detected in cattle so far (Malik et al., 2014b; Woo et al., 2019). On the contrary, a recent study revealed that the 201-bp partial sequence of the putative RdRp gene datum was insufficient for genotyping since it did not reflect the nucleotide diversity of the whole genome of PBVs (Knox et al., 2018; Perez et al., 2021). Our findings indicated a 7.08% positivity rate among samples (9/127), which are related to the genogroup 1 strains, showing good agreement with previous reports. Coupled with the literary evidence, these results demonstrated the intermittent presence of PBVs in diarrhoeic cattle calves in Turkey and the similarity to the strains previously defined as GI.
The evidence of concomitant PBV infection has been demonstrated for rotaviruses, astroviruses, caliciviruses and bocaviruses (Bányai et al., 2003; Bhattacharya et al., 2006a, b; Bhattacharya et al., 2007; Giordano et al., 2008; Wilburn et al., 2017). The co-occurrence of rotaviruses with PBV infection has previously been reported in piglets (Wilburn et al., 2017), humans (Bhattacharya et al., 2006a, b) and cattle (Ghosh et al., 2009b; Malik et al., 2014b). Our results supported the possibility of both PBV–BCoV dual (n = 2) and PBV–BRV–BCoV triple infections (n = 1) in bovine calves for the first time. As PBVs are often referred to as ‘opportunistic pathogens’ (Malik et al., 2014a), epithelial damages caused by rotaviruses and/or coronaviruses might have assisted PBV replication. However, the statistical analyses showed no significant correlation between the PBV and these two pathogens (p > 0.05); therefore, we conjectured that these co-existences could be a coincidence. Nonetheless, further investigation is needed to determine whether or not an interaction exists among these viruses.
Most recent studies have focussed on the amino acid sequence-based comparison of whole segment 2 data as a validated approach (Kleymann et al., 2020; Ghosh & Malik, 2021; Huaman et al., 2021). In this study, we utilised a primer pair that is capable of amplifying ~ 67% of the S segment; however, two out of nine PBV-positive detected samples presented with a detectable band only. Considering the success of the amplification, we recommend the use of Pico23-Pico25/Pico43 primer sets (Rosen et al., 2000) for routine PBV screening, whereas the PBV1.1FP/PBV1.2RP primer pair (Malik et al., 2018) can be considered for phylogenetic analysis and classification. Once high-throughput coverage was obtained, we further sought to conduct our phylogenetic analysis using 358 aa-deduced sequences of buzagi 8 (OK067326). Phylogenetically, buzagi 8 was grouped into a single clade with various strains isolated from different hosts, with amino acid similarities ranging between 69.65 and 74.86%, supported by a good bootstrap value (90%). Likewise, strain Elazig 12 (MW717581) showed the highest nucleotide homology to the isolate PF090203 (KU729761.1) obtained from a sea lion (82.09%), whereas 83.33% of the amino acids were shared with strain RS/BR/15/1S-1 (MG846412.1) and the clone c299374 (KY928713.1), which were identified from chickens and marmots, respectively. Woo et al. (2016) found a high level of variation in the PBV genome in marine mammals and emphasised that evolutionary mechanisms of the PBV genome could bear a resemblance to those of other segmented RNA viruses (Woo et al., 2016). Similarly, immense diversity between marmot-originated PBV strains was found, and nine types of PBV assortments in the PBV genome were recently proposed (Luo et al., 2018). The point mutations and genetic reassortments contribute to the evolution of PBVs (Ganesh et al., 2014; Woo et al., 2019). Additionally, Masachessi et al. (2015) also inferred that genogroup I (GGI) PBV strains could circulate in nature without any link to exact species or locations (Masachessi et al., 2015). Overall, these results point to the likelihood that the genetic heterogenicity between Turkish samples could be due to evolutionary mechanisms rather than hosts or geographical areas.
The basic polymerase domains and motifs have been explored using site-directed mutagenesis, providing an enhanced understanding of the basic mechanisms of PBV polymerases. We compared the buzagi 8 sequence with the consensus sequence of reference strains residue by residue, according to seven pre-determined motifs, A–F (Collier et al., 2016) and detected several point mutations in four of them (B, D, E and F). In addition, 13 amino acid-length motif A was further analysed for the rest of the strains, Malatya 9, Malatya 10, Elazig 12 and Sivas 31. The comparison revealed that several point mutations existed within the motifs. Interestingly, buzagi 8 had 374TEV376 residues, which differed from the consensus sequence in motif D. This motif is known to orchestrate the attachment of nucleotide substrates and determine the efficiency and fidelity of nucleotide addition (Yang et al., 2012; Collier et al., 2016). Based on these findings, we surmised that partial mutations in motif A might alter the polymerisation capability of protein, thereby resulting in further point mutations.
A basic pairwise comparison of the sequence data revealed a significant similarity among local isolates. Malatya 9 (MW717579) and Malatya 10 (MW717580) originated from the same province and displayed the highest nucleotide identity (99.50%) to each other. Furthermore, the marked resemblance of these strains with those obtained from the raw sewage from Louisiana and Maryland (75.12–76.62%). Previous studies revealed the high prevalence (100%) of the PBV genome in water-containing excrement (Symonds et al., 2009; Guajardo-Leiva et al., 2020). PBVs are also frequently considered a significant indicator of faecal contamination in drinking water sources (Symonds et al., 2009; Lin and Ganesh, 2013); therefore, it is plausible that the water sources of the cattle could function as a reservoir for PBV infection. Further, Malik et al. (2014a) demonstrated the species-wise distribution of PBVs and raw sewage isolates made up the majority of overall data (Malik et al., 2014a). Taken together, further studies are required to investigate the origin of faecal pollution of drinking water and its potential hosts in the Middle Anatolian territory.
The Sivas 31 strain (MW717582) showed the highest homology to the C343R strain—obtained from the respiratory tract of cattle in China—at the nucleotide (94.03%) and amino acid (98.48%) levels. Previous studies revealed the existence of PBVs in the alimentary and respiratory tracts of cattle (Ghosh et al., 2009a; Navarro et al., 2018; Woo et al., 2019), pigs (Smits et al., 2011; Kylla et al., 2017) and humans (Smits et al., 2012; Ng et al., 2014). Moreover, PBVs were also detected in the plasma of horses (Li et al., 2015). Mixed infection with multiple PBV variants in a single host was reported in pigs, cattle and humans (Ganesh et al., 2011a, b; Smits et al., 2011; Chen et al., 2014). This might be explained by the hypothesis that a PBV variant could spread via the bloodstream and could infect multiple organs in the host.
Several potential shortcomings need to be considered regarding the present study. First, we examined clinically diseased calves only, although PBVs could exist in healthy animals (Malik et al., 2011). Second, molecular sequencing was not applied for genotyping BRV and BCoV samples; therefore, the data lacked detail for subtypes of BRV and BCoV. Thus, there is a need for further data collection to compare the molecular characteristics of PBVs in clinically healthy calves and to determine the possible interactions between diseases, especially for the BRV and BCoV subgenotypes.
In conclusion, this study revealed a low prevalence of PBV in diarrhoeic bovine calves in Middle Anatolian provinces. Multiple sequence analysis and phylogenetic analysis of partial genomic data further demonstrated the high level of genetic diversity of PBVs in young calves. We also reported the occurrence of co-infection with BCoV in bovine calves for the first time. Our findings may be beneficial for understanding the distribution and prevalence of a neglected pathogen worldwide.
Data availability
Sequencing data obtained from this study were deposited in GenBank with accession numbers, MW717579-MW717582 and OK067326.
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Atasoy, M.O., Isidan, H. & Turan, T. Genetic diversity, frequency and concurrent infections of picobirnaviruses in diarrhoeic calves in Turkey. Trop Anim Health Prod 54, 127 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-022-03128-4
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