id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-288948-89cdfhi0 Campalto, M. Divergent minute virus of canines strains identified in illegally imported puppies in Italy 2020-10-08 .txt text/plain 1924 98 59 This study reports the characterization of four divergent MVC strains detected between 2012 and 2018, three of which were from dogs illegally imported into Italy, most probably from Eastern Europe, that cluster together phylogenetically but share low genetic similarity with the fourth MVC from an autochthonous dog and other available MVC sequences. In detail: the complete ORF1, encoding the NS1 protein, of three of the four MVC isolates (Italy/4033/2012, BIO-CRIME/2018 and Italy/59116/2017, which had a gap of 17 nt) was sequenced and was 2325 bases in length, corresponding to 774 aa (Fig. 1a) . The phylogenetic tree based on the ORF2 nt sequences encoding the VP1/VP2 proteins (Fig. 2c) , was constructed using all 124 MVC sequences available in the GenBank database and included the only Italian MVC sequence available, Italy/285_11/2011 (JQ612703_Canine_ minute_virus_strain_285_11_Italy_2011), for which only the partial VP1/VP2 sequence is present [9] . ./cache/cord-288948-89cdfhi0.txt ./txt/cord-288948-89cdfhi0.txt