Volume 18, Number 12—December 2012
Research
Nonprimate Hepaciviruses in Domestic Horses, United Kingdom
Sinéad Lyons, Amit Kapoor, Colin Sharp, Bradley S. Schneider, Nathan D. Wolfe, Geoff Culshaw, Brendan Corcoran, Bruce C. McGorum, and Peter Simmonds
Table 3
Nonprimate hepaciviruses sequences detected by using PCR on mammal samples, United Kingdom*
|
Animal/sample type
|
No.
|
NS3
|
5′-UTR
|
Published NS3
|
New primers, 5′-UTR
|
| Dog | |||||
|
Respiratory |
53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Plasma |
99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Lung |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Liver |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Spleen |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Horse | |||||
|
Respiratory |
40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Plasma |
142 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Donkey | |||||
|
Plasma |
16 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
| Cat | |||||
|
Plasma |
56 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
| Pig | |||||
|
Serum |
40 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
| Mouse | |||||
|
Liver |
61 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
*Data from 23. NS, nonstructural protein; UTR, untranslated region; NA, not applicable.
