A nucleotide sequence of the CiLV-C MP gene was identified from nt positions 3,228 to 4,121 in RNA2 of CiLV-C genome available from the NCBI gene bank (Accession number DQ352195) for the primers and probe development.The nucleotide sequence of forward primer, CiLV-C-F (5-GCGTATTGGCGTTGGATTTC-3), reverse primer, CiLV-C-R (5-AGCTTTACGGTTTATGAACCCA-3) and TaqMan probe, CiLV-C-Pr(5-/56FAM-ACCGAACGATATGATTTCTCGTTTGG-3BHQ 1-/3) was designed to amplify and detect a 73 nt amplicon of the MP gene for detection of CiLV-C.