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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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Table 1

Distribution of reads generated by sequencing of pooled intestinal contents from guinea fowl poults with fulminating disease France, 2010–2011*

Read type No. (%) reads
Total reads generated 476,430
Cellular reads 142,739 (30)
Bacterial reads 246,787 (51.8)
Archaea reads 35,271 (7.4)
Phage, plant, and insect virus reads 32,477 (6.8)
Eukaryote virus reads 19,155 (4.0)
Coronavirus reads 1,441 (7.5)†

*Sequencing was performed by using MiSeq (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) and analyzed by using the GAAS (http://gaas.sourceforge.net/) algorithm with an expected value of 10−3 (7).
†Percent within eukaryote virus reads.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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