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Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research

New Parvovirus Associated with Serum Hepatitis in Horses after Inoculation of Common Biological Product

Thomas J. Divers, Bud C. Tennant1, Arvind Kumar, Sean McDonough, John Cullen, Nishit Bhuva, Komal Jain, Lokendra Singh Chauhan, Troels Kasper Høyer Scheel, W. Ian Lipkin, Melissa Laverack, Sheetal Trivedi, Satyapramod Srinivasa, Laurie Beard, Charles M. Rice, Peter D. Burbelo, Randall W. Renshaw, Edward Dubovi, and Amit KapoorComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (T.J. Divers, B.C. Tennant, S. McDonough, M. Laverack, R.W. Renshaw, E. Dubovi); Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA (A. Kumar, S. Trivedi, S. Srinivasa, A. Kapoor); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (J. Cullen); Columbia University, New York, New York, USA (N. Bhuva, K. Jain, L.S. Chauhan, W.I. Lipkin); University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (T.K.H. Scheel); Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen (T.K.H. Scheel); Rockefeller University, New York (T.K.H. Scheel, C.M. Rice); Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA (L. Beard); National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (P.D. Burbelo)

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Figure 2

EqPV-H DNA secondary structure of the 503-nt long intergenic region predicted using mFOLD (25). EqPV-H, equine parvovirus hepatitis.

Figure 2. EqPV-H DNA secondary structure of the 583-nt intergenic region predicted using mFOLD (25). EqPV-H, equine parvovirus hepatitis.

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