TY - JOUR AU - Smits, Saskia AU - Poon, Leo AU - van Leeuwen, Marije AU - Lau, Pui-Ngan AU - Perera, Harsha AU - Peiris, Joseph AU - Simon, James AU - Osterhaus, Albert T1 - Genogroup I and II Picobirnaviruses in Respiratory Tracts of Pigs T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 12 SP - 2328 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Sequence-independent amplification and specific reverse transcription PCRs identified genogroup I and II picobirnaviruses in respiratory tracts of pigs. These data expand knowledge of picobirnavirus diversity and tropism. Genetic relationships between porcine respiratory and human enteric picobirnaviruses suggest cross-species transmission of picobirnaviruses between pigs and humans. KW - pigs KW - viruses KW - picobirnavirus KW - porcine picobirnavirus KW - genogroup I KW - genogroup II KW - respiratory tract KW - phylogeny KW - random amplification KW - slaughterhouses KW - zoonoses KW - Hong Kong KW - Sri Lanka DO - 10.3201/eid1712.110934 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/12/11-0934_article ER - End of Reference