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Ricci S, Bartolini S, Morandi F, Cuteri V, Preziuso S. Genotyping of Pestivirus A (Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus 1) detected in faeces and in other specimens of domestic and wild ruminants at the wildlife-livestock interface. Vet Microbiol 2019; 235:180-187. [PMID: 31383300 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Revised: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Pestiviruses are widespread in the world among ungulates and infect both domestic and wild animals causing severe economic losses in livestock. Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus type 1 (BVDV-1), now re-designated as Pestivirus A, causes diseases mainly in cattle, while few data are available about infection in wild ruminants and about the role of these animals in viral maintenance and spread. In order to investigate BVDV-1 infection in domestic and wild ruminants, especially at the wildlife/livestock interface, bulk tank milk from dairy cattle and sheep and spleen from red deer, roe deer and fallow deer were analysed. Furthermore, faecal samples from Apennine chamois and from wild deer were evaluated as a suitable sample for detecting and genotyping pestiviruses. BVDV-1 RNA was found in all animal species tested but not sheep. Genotyping based on partial 5'UTR and Npro sequences detected BVDV-1a in samples from Apennine chamois, red deer, roe deer and pasture-raised cattle, while BVDV-1c was found in a faecal sample from Apennine chamois and in a spleen sample from roe deer. For the first time BVDV-1 RNA was found and genotyped from faecal samples of wild ruminants and of cattle. BVDV-1a detection in Apennine chamois, red deer, roe deer and pasture-raised cattle suggests that the eventuality of viral transmission at the wildlife/livestock interface should be carefully evaluated. BVDV subgenotype 1c was found for the first time in roe deer and Apennine chamois in Central Italy, therefore the epidemiological role of these animals and the viral ecology should be further investigated.
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- Sara Ricci
- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Italy
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- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Italy
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- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Italy
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- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Italy.
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Chakraborty AK, Mukherjee P, Karam A, Das S, Barkalita L, Puro K, Sanjukta R, Ghatak S, Sakuntala I, Laha RG, Borah P, Ngachan SV, Sharma I, Sen A. Evidence of BVDV in Pigs from North Eastern Part of India- Genetic Profiling and Characterisation. Open Virol J 2018; 12:110-120. [PMID: 30288199 PMCID: PMC6142659 DOI: 10.2174/1874357901812010110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2017] [Revised: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Introduction: The work has been attempted to detect and genetically characterise the nature of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) isolates from the porcine population of the north east. Methods and Material: The samples have been collected over a two year period and are from areas where there is a mixed and integrated rearing of livestock in close proximity. The isolates were identified, cloned and sequenced using BVD specific genomic primers for two important domains viz., E-2 and 5’ UTR. Results: Porcine BVD Sequences were analysed phylogenetically. Divergence in 3 sequences is noted in the 5’ UTR region that are forming a clear outlier group while E-2 sequences are coming close to BVDV group but forming a separate cluster.
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- Amit Kr Chakraborty
- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India.,Department of Microbiology, Assam University, Silchar - 788011, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India.,Department of Microbiology, Assam University, Silchar - 788011, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, C.V.Sc, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, C.V.Sc, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Assam University, Silchar - 788011, India
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- Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Barapani - 793103, India
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More S, Bøtner A, Butterworth A, Calistri P, Depner K, Edwards S, Garin-Bastuji B, Good M, Gortázar Schmidt C, Michel V, Miranda MA, Nielsen SS, Raj M, Sihvonen L, Spoolder H, Stegeman JA, Thulke HH, Velarde A, Willeberg P, Winckler C, Baldinelli F, Broglia A, Candiani D, Beltrán-Beck B, Kohnle L, Bicout D. Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): Border disease. EFSA J 2017; 15:e04993. [PMID: 32625290 PMCID: PMC7010011 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Border disease has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of Border disease to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of Border disease according to disease prevention and control rules as in Annex IV and Article 8 on the list of animal species concerned by Border disease. The assessment has been performed following a methodology composed of information collection and compilation, expert judgement on each criterion at individual and, if no consensus was reached before, also at collective level. The output is composed of the categorical answer, and for the questions where no consensus was reached, the different supporting views are reported. Details on the methodology used for this assessment are explained in a separate opinion. According to the assessment performed, Border disease can be considered eligible to be listed for Union intervention as laid down in Article 5(3) of the AHL. The disease would comply with the criteria as in Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Annex IV of the AHL, for the application of the disease prevention and control rules referred to in points (c), (d) and (e) of Article 9(1). The animal species to be listed for Border disease according to Article 8(3) criteria are mainly sheep and other species of the family Bovidae as susceptible and reservoirs.
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Paniagua J, García-Bocanegra I, Arenas-Montes A, Berriatua E, Espunyes J, Carbonero A, Rosell R, Marco I, Cabezón O. Absence of circulation of Pestivirus between wild and domestic ruminants in southern Spain. Vet Rec 2016; 178:215. [PMID: 26864026 DOI: 10.1136/vr.103490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ruminant pestiviruses (family Flaviviridae) affect both wild and domestic ruminants worldwide, causing reproductive disorders and severe economic losses. Wild (n=1442) and domestic (n=373) ruminants from southern Spain were tested for the presence of antibodies to pestiviruses. Seropositivity was detected by both ELISA and virus neutralisation test in 1/892 (0.1 per cent) red deer, 29/125 (23.2 per cent) cattle and 17/157 (10.8 per cent) sheep. Pestivirus-specific antibodies to bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) and border disease virus (BDV) genotypes 1, 4 and 5 were detected. Significantly higher antibody titres to BDV-4 compared with BVDV-NADL were found in one cattle farm. Results indicate that wild ruminants may act as spillover hosts from domestic ruminants, and therefore they do not represent a risk for domestic ruminants in southern Spain. The wide distribution of pestiviruses among sheep and cattle suggests that transmission between these species may occur.
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- J Paniagua
- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain
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- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain
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- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain
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- Animal Health Department, Regional Campus of International Excellence "Campus Mare Nostrum", Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Animal Health Department, Regional Campus of International Excellence "Campus Mare Nostrum", Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain
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- Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona 08007, Spain
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- Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge, Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
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- Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge, Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
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Nelson DD, Duprau JL, Wolff PL, Evermann JF. Persistent Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Infection in Domestic and Wild Small Ruminants and Camelids Including the Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus). Front Microbiol 2016; 6:1415. [PMID: 26779126 PMCID: PMC4703785 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a pestivirus best known for causing a variety of disease syndromes in cattle, including gastrointestinal disease, reproductive insufficiency, immunosuppression, mucosal disease, and hemorrhagic syndrome. The virus can be spread by transiently infected individuals and by persistently infected animals that may be asymptomatic while shedding large amounts of virus throughout their lifetime. BVDV has been reported in over 40 domestic and free-ranging species, and persistent infection has been described in eight of those species: white-tailed deer, mule deer, eland, mousedeer, mountain goats, alpacas, sheep, and domestic swine. This paper reviews the various aspects of BVDV transmission, disease syndromes, diagnosis, control, and prevention, as well as examines BVDV infection in domestic and wild small ruminants and camelids including mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus).
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- Danielle D Nelson
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
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Martin C, Duquesne V, Adam G, Belleau E, Gauthier D, Champion JL, Saegerman C, Thiéry R, Dubois E. Pestiviruses infections at the wild and domestic ruminants interface in the French Southern Alps. Vet Microbiol 2014; 175:341-8. [PMID: 25532780 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2013] [Revised: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/16/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In alpine pasture, interspecies transmission has recently been incriminated in the epidemiology of pestivirus infection. The aim of this study was to investigate pestivirus infections in wild and domestic ruminants sharing pastures in the French Southern Alps. Animal sera were screened for pestivirus antibodies against the pestivirus NS3 protein by a commercial blocking enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). All 38 domestic herds tested were positive for pestivirus-specific antibodies. Individual sero-prevalence reached 76.5% (95% confidence interval [95% CI]: [74.2-78.8%]) of the 1383 sheep tested. For wild ruminants, 38.7% (95% CI: [33.8-43.9%]) of the 369 chamois tested, 28.7% (95% CI: [17.4-38.1%]) of the 72 roe deer, and 22.2% (95% CI: [6.5-37.9%]) of the 27 mouflons were seropositive. Virus screening was carried out on spleen samples from hunted wild animals (n=160) and from 15 domestic ruminants (clinically suspected to be persistently infected animals), by a conventional reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Three pestivirus strains were isolated from the sheep samples positive by RT-PCR. The viruses were classified in the BDV-3, BDV-Tunisian and BDV-6 genotypes. For the first time, one strain (RUPI-05 strain) was isolated from an alpine chamois and clustered in the BDV-6 genotype, showing in the 5'-UTR region 92% of identity with the ovine isolate from the same area. Thus, an active circulation of pestiviruses was demonstrated in both wild and domestic ungulates from the French Southern Alps. The results suggest that interspecies transmission between sheep and chamois probably occur.
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- Claire Martin
- Anses, Laboratoire de Sophia-Antipolis, Unité pathologie des ruminants, 105 Route des Chappes - B.P. 111, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
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- Anses, Laboratoire de Sophia-Antipolis, Unité pathologie des ruminants, 105 Route des Chappes - B.P. 111, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
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- Anses, Laboratoire de Sophia-Antipolis, Unité pathologie des ruminants, 105 Route des Chappes - B.P. 111, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Départemental Vétérinaire et d'Hygiène Alimentaire des Hautes-Alpes, Rue des Silos 5, B.P. 63, F-05602 Gap Cedex, France
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- Research Unit in Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Boulevard de Colonster, 20, B42, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Anses, Laboratoire de Sophia-Antipolis, Unité pathologie des ruminants, 105 Route des Chappes - B.P. 111, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
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- Anses, Laboratoire de Sophia-Antipolis, Unité pathologie des ruminants, 105 Route des Chappes - B.P. 111, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France.
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Casaubon J, Vogt HR, Stalder H, Hug C, Ryser-Degiorgis MP. Bovine viral diarrhea virus in free-ranging wild ruminants in Switzerland: low prevalence of infection despite regular interactions with domestic livestock. BMC Vet Res 2012; 8:204. [PMID: 23107231 PMCID: PMC3514304 DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-8-204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED BACKGROUND In the frame of an eradication program for bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) in Swiss livestock, the question was raised whether free-ranging wildlife could threaten the success of this sanitary measure. Therefore, we conducted serological and virological investigations on BVD virus (BVDV) infections in the four indigenous wild ruminant species (roe deer, red deer, Alpine chamois and Alpine ibex) from 2009 to 2011, and gathered information on interactions between wild and domestic ruminants in an alpine environment by questionnaire survey. RESULTS Thirty-two sera out of 1'877 (1.7%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.2-2.4) were seropositive for BVDV, and a BVDV1 sub genotype h virus was found in a seropositive chamois (0.05%, 95% CI 0.001-0.3). The seropositive animals originated from sub-alpine or alpine regions and significantly more seropositive red deer, chamois and ibex than roe deer were found. There were no statistically significant differences between sampling units, age classes, genders, and sampling years. The obtained prevalences were significantly lower than those documented in livestock, and most positive wild ruminants were found in proximity of domestic outbreaks. Additionally, BVDV seroprevalence in ibex was significantly lower than previously reported from Switzerland. The survey on interspecific interactions revealed that interactions expected to allow BVDV transmission, from physical contacts to non-simultaneous use of the same areas, regularly occur on pastures among all investigated ruminant species. Interactions involving cervids were more often observed with cattle than with small ruminants, chamois were observed with all three domestic species, and ibex interacted mostly with small ruminants. Interactions related to the use of anthropogenic food sources were frequently observed, especially between red deer and cattle in wintertime. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, this is the first report of BVDV RNA isolated from an Alpine chamois. Nevertheless, our results suggest that BVDV infections are only sporadic in Swiss wild ruminants, despite regular occurrence of interactions with potentially infected livestock. Overall, serological, virological and ethological data indicate that wildlife is currently an incidental spill-over host and not a reservoir for BVDV in Switzerland.
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- Julien Casaubon
- Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health (FIWI), Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Veterinary Virology (IVV), Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Veterinary Virology (IVV), Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Veterinary Virology (IVV), Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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