Viral infections shared between water buffaloes and small ruminants in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Importation of exotic animals that may harbor infectious agents poses risks for native species with potentially severe impacts on animal health and animal production. Although the Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) population in Europe is steadily increasing, its susceptibility to viral infections and its role for interspecies transmission is largely unknown. To identify viral infections that are shared between exotic water buffaloes and native small ruminants, we collected blood samples from 3 Swiss farms on which water buffaloes were kept either without, or together with, sheep or goats. These samples were analyzed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) as well as by selected conventional tests, including PCR, ELISA, and in some cases a virus neutralization test. By NGS, a novel v

SUBMITTER: Lechmann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366260 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature