Avian Astrovirus
AssigneeIntervet International B.V.
InventorsSjaak De Wit, Carla Christina Schrier, Marcel Van de Laar, Iwan Verstegen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the fields of veterinary virology and immunology. In particular the invention relates to a novel avian Astrovirus; to antibodies or fragments thereof against the novel virus; to antigenic preparations, proteins, and DNA molecules of the novel avian Astrovirus; to vaccines of the novel virus or its antigenic preparations, protein, or DNA; to methods for the manufacture of such vaccines, and to diagnostic kits.
Claims14
An isolated Avian Astrovirus having an open reading frame (ORF) 1a genomic region, characterised in that the ORF1a of said avian Astrovirus, when compared to the ORF 1a of avian nephritis virus 1, contains an insert of 12 nucleotides, said insert being located in between nucleotides corresponding to the nucleotides numbered 2485 and 2486 of SEQ ID NO:
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An isolated DNA molecule comprising a region having a nucleotide sequence identity of at least 88% with SEQ ID NO:
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An isolated protein comprising a region having an amino acid sequence identity of at least 93% with SEQ ID NO:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.