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. 1991 Sep;29(9):2059–2062. doi: 10.1128/jcm.29.9.2059-2062.1991

Rabbit Syncytium Virus Is a Kemerovo Serogroup Orbivirus †

Kenneth W Theil 1,*, Christine M McCloskey 1
PMCID: PMC270261  PMID: 1663523

Abstract

Polyacrylamide gel genome electropherotyping and negative-stain electron microscopic studies, along with immunofluorescent staining and immune electron microscopy reactions, indicate that rabbit syncytium virus has the morphologic, genomic, and antigenic attributes of a Kemerovo serogroup orbivirus.

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