The Attenuation of the Virus of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease of Deer by Its Serial Passage in the Brains of Newborn Mice

The Propagation of the Virus of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease of Deer in Newborn Mice and Hela Cells

The New Jersey strain of EHD virus has been propagated in newborn Swiss mice by the intracerebral route and is regularly lethal beyond the first serial mouse passage. A complement-fixing antigen prepared from the brains of infected mice reacts positively with the sera of deer recovered from infection with either the New Jersey or South Dakota strain of virus, but not with the serum of normal de...

Sero-prevalence of bluetongue disease in sheep in west and northwest provinces of Iran

The objective of this study was to describe the seroprevalence rates of bluetongue virus (BTV) in sheep in west and northwest provinces of Iran. Bluetongue virus, an economically important orbivirus of the Reoviridae family, causes a hemorrhagic disease mainly in sheep and occasionally in cattle and some species of deer. Bluetongue virus is transmitted between its mammalian hosts by ce...

Identification and Typing of Horse-Sickness Virus Strains Isolated in the Recent Epizootic of the Disease in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria

Diseases Caused by the Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Serogroup Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, Hemorrhagic Disease, Ibaraki Disease, Bovine Influenza, Bovine Epizootic Fever, Bluetongue-like Disease

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease is an important disease of cervids, especially white-tailed deer. The causative virus is widespread among wild cervids in North America, where white-tailed deer are endemic, and periodically causes serious epidemics in wild and/or captive populations. Sporadic clinical cases and outbreaks have also been reported in other cervids, cattle, bison, yaks and other anima...

Genomic Sequences of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Viruses Isolated from Florida White-Tailed Deer

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) serotypes 1 and 2 were isolated from Florida white-tailed deer in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and their genomes were completely sequenced. To our knowledge, these are the first full genome sequences for EHDV-1 and -2 from Florida.