Abstract
Bocaviruses have been found in the feces of humans and a variety of animals, including pigs, cattle, dogs, gorillas, cats, and sea lions. Here, we have characterized the almost complete genome (5224 nt) of a novel bocavirus from feces of domestic minks, which has been provisionally named mink bocavirus. The NS1 protein of mink bocavirus shared 36.9–52 % amino acid sequence identities with those of other known bocaviruses and phylogenetically clustered with bocaviruses from other carnivores. According to the genetic distance-based criteria, mink bocavirus qualifies as a novel species of bocavirus. PCR of feces from a group of domestic minks, which included both healthy animals and animals suffering from diarrhea, revealed that 30 % (9/30) shed virus. However, no association between viral shedding and the presence of diarrhea could be determined.
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This work was partly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province No. BK20130502 and BK20140537, the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 31302107, the Professional Research Foundation for Advanced Talents of Jiangsu University No. 12JDG085, 13JDG025, and 13JDG087, the Postdoctoral Foundation of Jiangsu Province No. 1302058C and 1302057C, the China Postdoctoral Foundation No. 2014M561597, China Postdoctoral Special Foundation No. 2015T80503, and NIH Grant no. R01 HL105770.
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Yang, S., Wang, Y., Li, W. et al. A novel bocavirus from domestic mink, China. Virus Genes 52, 887–890 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-016-1380-4
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