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Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Research

Astroviruses in Rabbits

Vito MartellaComments to Author , Paschalina Moschidou, Pierfrancesco Pinto, Cristiana Catella, Constantina Desario, Vittorio Larocca, Elena Circella, Krisztian Bànyai, Antonio Lavazza, Chiara Magistrali, Nicola Decaro, and Canio Buonavoglia
Author affiliations: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Italy (V. Martella, P. Moschidou, P. Pinto, C. Catella, C. Desario, V. Larocca, E. Circella, N. Decaro, C. Buonavoglia); Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (K. Bànyai); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Lombardia ed Emilia Romagna, Brescia, Italy (A. Lavazza); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Marche ed Umbria, Perugia, Italy (C. Magistrali)

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Table 2

Primers used for detection and sequencing analysis of rabbit astroviruses, Italy, 2008

Primer Sequence, 5′ → 3′ Sense Reference
702VM-Pb 6FAM-TCTCAACAGGTATGTCGTCCTCCCTTCTGG-BHQ1 + This study
683VM-F CCATATAYAAGTGGTATTGCAARCA + This study
684VM-R TTCCGCTGRATGGTRACCTC – This study
panAstVFor1 GARTTYGATTGGRCKCGKTAYGA + (13)
panAstVFor2 GARTTYGATTGGRCKAGGTAYGA + (13)
panAstVRev GGYTTKACCCACATNCCRAA – (13)
VN3T20 GAGTGACCGCGGCCGCT20 – (23)

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