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Muhammad Abubakar1 \*, Abdullah Iqbal<sup>2</sup> , Shumaila Manzoor1 and Kashif Saleemi3

1 National Veterinary Laboratory, Islamabad, Pakistan

2 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

3 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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