Bovine Ephemeral Fever in Iran: Diagnosis, Isolation and Molecular Characterization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bovine ephemeral fever (BEFV) is an arthropod-borne disease of cattle and water buffaloes. BEFV occurs seasonally in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. It has been known for the past decades in Iran based on clinical signs but lack of an accurate diagnosis has made the real feature of disease obscured. This is the first scientific report on isolation and identification of the agent in which molecular diagnosis of BEFV was also set up with high sensitivity and specificity.

Methods

The viral agent was successfully isolated through serial passages in brain of suckling mice and cell culture. In addition, the circulating virus during the autumn 2012 in Iran was molecularly characterized based on partial G gene.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Bakhshesh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4662791 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature