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Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae

In this study, we report the isolation of a new giant virus found in sewage water from the southern area of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), with morphological and genomic resemblance to Faustoviruses. This new giant virus, named Kaumoebavirus, was obtained from co-culture with Vermamoeba vermiformis, an amoe...

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Autores principales: Bajrai, Leena H., Benamar, Samia, Azhar, Esam I., Robert, Catherine, Levasseur, Anthony, Raoult, Didier, La Scola, Bernard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27801826
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8110278