Discriminating the eight genotypes of the porcine circovirus type 2 with TaqMan-based real-time PCR

Abstract Background The porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is divided into eight genotypes including the previously described genotypes PCV2a to PCV2f and the two new genotypes PCV2g and PCV2h. PCV2 genotyping has become an important task in molecular epidemiology and to advance research on the prophy...

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Main Authors: Ellen Kathrin Link, Matthias Eddicks, Liangliang Nan, Mathias Ritzmann, Gerd Sutter, Robert Fux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:Virology Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01541-z