The viruses of wild pigeon droppings.

Birds are frequent sources of emerging human infectious diseases. Viral particles were enriched from the feces of 51 wild urban pigeons (Columba livia) from Hong Kong and Hungary, their nucleic acids randomly amplified and then sequenced. We identified sequences from known and novel species from the...

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Main Authors: Tung Gia Phan, Nguyen Phung Vo, Ákos Boros, Péter Pankovics, Gábor Reuter, Olive T W Li, Chunling Wang, Xutao Deng, Leo L M Poon, Eric Delwart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3762862?pdf=render