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Table 1 Animals tested

From: Rare isolation of human-tropic recombinant porcine endogenous retroviruses PERV-A/C from Göttingen minipigs

Pig breeds

Number of tested animals

Detection of

Animals positive for PERV-A/C

Infection of 293 cells

PERV-C

PERV-A/Ca

PERV-A/Cb

Göttingen minipigsc

11

11

3

3

5

1

Göttingen minipigsd

17

17

1

0

1

0

German landracec

19

19

0

0

0

0

Black forest minipigc

5

5

1

0

1

0

Aachen minipigc

6

6

0

2

2

0

In total

58

58 (100%)

5 (8.6%)

5 (8.6%)

9 (15.5%)

1 (1.7%)

  1. aPCR using the primer pair PERV-A VRB fw and PERV-C TMR rev (1200 bp amplicon),
  2. bPCR using the primer pair PERV-A VRB fw and PERV-C rev (380 bp amplicon),
  3. cExperiment 1 [15] and this manuscript,
  4. dExperiment 2, this manuscript
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