| Literature DB >> 33496231 |
Akbar Dastjerdi, Nadia Inglese, Tim Partridge, Siva Karuna, David J Everest, Jean-Pierre Frossard, Mark P Dagleish, Mark F Stidworthy.
Abstract
In the fall of 2019, a fatal encephalitis outbreak led to the deaths of >200 European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in England. We used next-generation sequencing to identify a novel arterivirus with a genome coding sequence of only 43% similarity to existing GenBank arterivirus sequences.Entities:
Keywords: Arteriviridae; England; Erinaceus europaeus; European hedgehog; arterivirus; meningitis/encephalitis; outbreak; viruses; zoonoses
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33496231 PMCID: PMC7853545 DOI: 10.3201/eid2702.201962
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Infect Dis ISSN: 1080-6040 Impact factor: 6.883