One after the other: a novel Bluetongue virus strain related to Toggenburg virus detected in the Piedmont region (North‐western Italy), extends the panel of novel atypical BTV strains
Date
2018Author
Marcacci, Maurilia
Van Rijn, Piet A.
Sant, Serena
Mangone, Iolanda
Goria, Maria
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In this rapid communication, a novel atypical bluetongue virus (BTV) strain detected
in goats in the Piedmont region (north-western Italy) is described. This strain, BTV-Z
ITA2017, is most related in Seg-2/VP-2 (83.8% nt/82.7% aa) to strain TOV of BTV-
25. Reactive antisera of goats positive by cELISA for BTV antibodies failed to
neutralize a chimeric virus expressing the outermost protein of TOV. Infected ani-
mals displayed low levels of RNAemia and absence of clinical signs consistent with
bluetongue infection, a scenario described in animals infected with atypical BTV
strains
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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/26723https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tbed.12822
https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12822
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