| molecular epidemiology of chicken anemia virus (cav) in southeastern chinese live birds markets. | between january 2004 and december 2005, cloacal swabs from essentially healthy chickens and silky chickens from live birds markets in guangdong and hunan provinces in southeastern china were screened for chicken anemia virus (cav) by polymerase chain reaction. phylogenetic analysis of the major structural protein vp1 sequences showed no clear genotype cluster and no correlation with the geographic origin of cav strains. virus evolution at the amino acid level was very slow, which corresponds to ... | 2008 | 18459299 |