MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER VIRUS IN NASAL SECRETIONS OF WILDEBEEST: A PROBABLE MECHANISM FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION

A preliminary report on the isolation of bovine malignant catarrhal fever virus in Iran

Wildebeest-derived malignant catarrhal fever: unusual epidemiology in South Africa.

The epidemiology of wildebeest-derived malignant catarrhal fever in South Africa differs from the worldwide accepted pattern. Here the occurrence of the disease is often not related to close contact between cattle and wildebeest, and most cases are observed during late winter and spring, when wildebeest calves are 8-10 months old. This is in contrast to the situation in Kenya and Tanzania, wher...

Discrimination between sheep-associated and wildebeest-associated malignant catarrhal fever virus by means of a single-tube duplex nested PCR.

A single-tube duplex nested polymerase chain reaction (sdn-PCR) was developed for the detection of and discrimination between ovine herpesvirus-2 (OvHV-2) and alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AIHV-1). These viruses respectively cause sheep- and wildebeest-associated malignant catarrhal fever (SA-MCF and WA-MCF). In the first step of the sdn-PCR, two primers with high annealing temperatures based on c...

Alcelaphine Herpesvirus-1 (Malignant Catarrhal Fever Virus) in Wildebeest Placenta: Genetic Variation of ORF50 and A9.5 Alleles

Alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AlHV-1), a causative agent of malignant catarrhal fever in cattle, was detected in wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) placenta tissue for the first time. Although viral load was low, the finding of viral DNA in over 50% of 94 samples tested lends support to the possibility that placental tissue could play a role in disease transmission and that wildebeest calves are i...

Malignant Catarrhal Fever

MCF is defined by the recognition of characteristic lymphoid cell accumulations in non-lymphoid organs, vasculitis, and T-lymphocyte hyperplasia in lymphoid organs, and can be caused by either of two gamma-herpesviruses. The alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AIHV-1), the natural host of which, the wildebeest, is infected inapparently, causes the disease in cattle in regions of Africa and various rumin...