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Furthermore, the potential decreased recombination risk correlated with increased polymerase fidelity. In an inter-lineage co-infection assay on primary alveolar macrophages, the I360V substitution in RdRp reduced the recombination frequency of NADC30-like PRRSV-2 HeB108 as determined by both Sanger sequencing and nanopore long-read RNA sequencing. 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