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Blood RNA Sequencing on Healthy West Africans IDs New Rhabdoviruses

Mar 18, 2015
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team from Nigeria, the US, and Australia unwittingly uncovered two new rhabdoviruses in blood samples from healthy West African individuals as part of a sequencing-based study of another condition.

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