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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
Dispatch

Novel Avian Coronavirus and Fulminating Disease in Guinea Fowl, France

Etienne Liais1, Guillaume Croville1, Jérôme Mariette, Maxence Delverdier, Marie-Noëlle Lucas, Christophe Klopp, Jérôme Lluch, Cécile Donnadieu, James S. Guy, Léni Corrand, Mariette F. Ducatez, and Jean-Luc GuérinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Toulouse, France (E. Liais, G. Croville, M. Delverdier, M.-N. Lucas, L. Corrand, M.F. Ducatez, J.-L. Guérin); Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse (E. Liais, G. Croville, M. Delverdier, M.-N. Lucas, L. Corrand, M.F. Ducatez, J.-L. Guérin); INRA 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France (J. Mariette, C. Klopp; J. Lluch, C. Donnadieu); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (J. Guy)

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Figure 1

Replication of guinea fowl coronavirus in intestinal epithelium cells of experimentally infected birds as evidenced by immunohistochemical testing with a turkey coronavirus–specific monoclonal antibody, France, 2010–2011 (9).

Figure 1. . . Replication of guinea fowl coronavirus in intestinal epithelium cells of experimentally infected birds as evidenced by immunohistochemical testing with a turkey coronavirus–specific monoclonal antibody, France, 2010–2011 (9). Scale bar indicates 0.1mm.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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