Shrews As Reservoir Hosts of Borna Disease Virus

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2006 May 18

PMID 16704819

Citations 52

Authors

Monika Hilbe

Romana Herrsche

Jolanta Kolodziejek

Norbert Nowotny

Kati Zlinszky

Felix Ehrensperger

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Abstract

Borna disease virus (BDV) is the causative agent of severe T-cell-mediated meningoencephalitis in horses, sheep, and other animal species in central Europe. Here we report the first unequivocal detection of a BDV reservoir species, the bicolored white-toothed shrew, Crocidura leucodon, in an area in Switzerland with endemic Borna disease.

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