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Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
Bluetongue has emerged recently in Belgium. A bluetongue virus strain was isolated and characterized as serotype 8. Two new real-time reverse transcription–quantitative PCRs (RT-qPCRs) that amplified 2 different segments of bluetongue virus detected this
Jean-François Toussaint, Corinne Sailleau, Jan Mast, Philippe Houdart, Guy Czaplicki, Lien Demeestere, Frank Vandenbussche, Wesley van Dessel, Nesya Goris, Emmanuel Bréard, Lotfi Bounaadja, Etienne Thiry, Stephan Zientara, Kris De Clercq   +13 more
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Potential Acute Renal Injury in Sheep with Bluetongue Serotype 4

Pathogens, 2021
Bluetongue is a vector-borne disease with epidemic potential. Recently, outbreaks of Bluetongue were reported across Greece, caused by the Bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 4.
Labrini V. Athanasiou, Eleni G. Katsogiannou, Victoria M. Spanou, Anna Dedousi, Panagiotis D. Katsoulos   +4 more
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Culicoides species involved in the BTV-3 epidemic, the Netherlands, 2023-2024. [PDF]

Med Vet Entomol
A high amount of Culicoides‐midges were captured using Onderstepoort light traps on farms with animals infected with bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV‐3) at the beginning of the outbreak in 2023. Species, sex and parity of the captured Culicoides‐midges were morphologically determined and gravid and parous Culicoides‐midges have been selected and pooled for ...
Uiterwijk M, Jacobs F, de Boer K, Feddema AJ, Vloet RPM, Dik M, Gonzales JL, van Rijn PA, Elbers ARW, Holwerda M.   +9 more
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A Qualitative Risk Assessment for Bluetongue Disease and African Horse Sickness: The Risk of Entry and Exposure at a UK Zoo

Viruses, 2022
Bluetongue virus (BTV) and African horse sickness virus (AHSV) cause economically important diseases that are currently exotic to the United Kingdom (UK), but have significant potential for introduction and onward transmission.
Elisabeth Nelson, William Thurston, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Hannah Jenkins, Mary Cameron, Simon Carpenter, Amanda Guthrie, Marion England   +7 more
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Testicular degeneration and infertility following arbovirus infection [PDF]

, 2018
Arboviruses can cause a variety of clinical signs including febrile illness, arthritis, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever. The recent Zika epidemic highlighted the possibility that arboviruses may also negatively affect the male reproductive tract.
Dattena, Maria, Ligios, Ciriaco, Maestrale, Caterina, Manunta, Daniela, Meloni, Giorgio, Melzi, Eleonora, Oggiano, Annalisa, Palmarini, Massimo, Pintus, Davide, Puggioni, Giantonella, Rocchigiani, Angela Maria, Savini, Giovanni   +11 more
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Bluetongue Disease [PDF]

, 2019
Bluetongue (BT) is a noncontagious OIE-listed disease of domestic and wild ruminants caused by a virus (Bluetongue virus—BTV) of the Orbivirus genus within the family Reoviridae and transmitted by biting midges of the genus Culicoides. BT is a considerable socioeconomic concern and of major importance for the international trade of animals and animal ...
Cappai S., Forzan M., Loi F., Rolesu S., Sghaier S., Petrini A., Savini G., Lorusso A.   +7 more
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Viral Vector Vaccines against Bluetongue Virus

Microorganisms, 2020
Bluetongue virus (BTV), the prototype member of the genus Orbivirus (family Reoviridae), is the causative agent of an important livestock disease, bluetongue (BT), which is transmitted via biting midges of the genus Culicoides.
L. Jiménez-Cabello, Sergio Utrilla-Trigo, E. Calvo-Pinilla, Sandra Moreno, A. Nogales, J. Ortego, Alejandro Marín-López   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development and Validation of an ELISA for the Detection of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 4-Specific Antibodies

Viruses, 2021
In this article, we describe the development and evaluation of a double antigen sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) able to detect serotype 4-specific antibodies from BTV-4 infected or vaccinated animals using a recombinant BTV-4 VP2 ...
Emmanuel Bréard, Mathilde Turpaud, Georges Beaud, Lydie Postic, Aurore Fablet, Martin Beer, Corinne Sailleau, Grégory Caignard, Cyril Viarouge, Bernd Hoffmann, Damien Vitour, Stéphan Zientara   +11 more
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Type-specific seroprevalence of bluetongue in India during 2018 and 2019 [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2020
Background and Aim: Bluetongue (BT) is a major disease of sheep and goats and is endemic to India. It is known to cause significant economic losses to the sheep industry.
G. Naresh, Kalyani Putty, Y. Narasimha Reddy, Y. Krishna Jyothi   +3 more
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Genetic Characterization of the Tick-Borne Orbiviruses [PDF]

, 2015
The International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognizes four species of tick-borne orbiviruses (TBOs): Chenuda virus, Chobar Gorge virus, Wad Medani virus and Great Island virus (genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae).
Attoui, H, Belaganahalli, M N, Brownlie, J, Maan, N S, Maan, S, Mertens, P P C, Tesh, R   +6 more
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