Bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease and border disease in Egypt.

The occurrence of bovine virus diarrhoea/muscosal disease in Iran

Bovine virus diarrhoea virus: speculation and observations on current concepts.

This final chapter highlights the advances and some of the unanswered questions concerning bovine virus diarrhoea virus (BVDV) presented in this Review by specialists from around the world. Persistently viraemic cattle play an essential role in the dissemination of BVDV but it is suggested that acute infections with the virus are also important. The role of latency is considered but, as yet, th...

Current situation of bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease (BVD-MD) virus infections and their antigenic diversity in Hokkaido, Japan.

The current situation of bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease (BVD-MD) virus infections is briefly reviewed, with special reference to problems arising from fetal infection in the Hokkaido district, a northern island of Japan. The results of some investigations on BVD-MD virus carried out in Japan are also described. Although bovine congenital anomalies caused by BVD-MD virus and mucosal dise...

Bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease: prevalence, epizootiology and control measures in the USSR.

Bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease was described for the first time in the USSR in 1967. The disease occurs in 20 to 80% of farms, depending on geographic and climatic zones of the country. Control measures against the disease include quarantine restrictions and prevention by means of specific preparations of active and passive effect. Passive prophylaxis is conducted by aerosol methods for...

Clinical Presentation Resembling Mucosal Disease Associated with 'HoBi'-like Pestivirus in a Field Outbreak.

The genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae consists of four recognized species: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus 1 (BVDV-1), Bovine viral diarrhoea virus 2 (BVDV-2), Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) and Border disease virus (BDV). Recently, atypical pestiviruses ('HoBi'-like pestiviruses) were identified in batches of contaminated foetal calf serum and in naturally infected cattle with and w...