Tracing the transmission of bovine coronavirus infections in cattle herds based on S gene diversity

• Published in: The Veterinary Journal
• Main Authors: Bidokhti, Mehdi R.M., Tråvén, Madeleine, Ohlson, Anna, Baule, Claudia, Hakhverdyan, Mikhayil, Belák, Sándor, Liu, Lihong, Alenius, Stefan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2012
• Subjects: Article; The Spike; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110563/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22750286; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.12.015

Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) is found worldwide and causes respiratory infections and diarrhoea in calves and adult cattle. In order to investigate the molecular epidemiology of BCoV, 27 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) positive samples from 25 cattle herds in different parts of...