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Olatunde Babatunde Akanbi1 \*, Victor Olusegun Taiwo2 , Emmanuel Tumininu Obishakin3 , Pius Stephen Ekong4 , Israel Joshua Barde5 and Clement Adebajo Meseko6

1 Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

2 Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

3 Department of Biotechnology, National Veterinary Research Institute, P.M.B. 1, Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

4 Department of Epidemiology, National Veterinary Research Institute, P.M.B. 1, Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

5 Laboratory of Central Diagnostic, National Veterinary Research Institute, P.M.B. 1, Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

6 Division of Animal Influenza, Infectious and Transboundary Animal Diseases, National Veterinary Research Institute, P.M.B. 1, Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

\*Address all correspondence to: akanbi.ob@unilorin.edu.ng; olatunde\_akanbi@yahoo.co.uk

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