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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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Published in:Viruses
Main Authors: Bajrai, Leena H., Benamar, Samia, Azhar, Esam I., Robert, Catherine, Levasseur, Anthony, Raoult, Didier, La Scola, Bernard
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: MDPI 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127008/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27801826
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8110278
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