Epidemiology, Molecular Virology and Diagnostics of Schmallenberg Virus, an Emerging Orthobunyavirus in Europe

Overview

Journal Vet Res

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2013 May 17

PMID 23675914

Citations 36

Authors

Virginie Doceul

Estelle Lara

Corinne Sailleau

Guillaume Belbis

Jennifer Richardson

Emmanuel Breard

Cyril Viarouge

Morgane Dominguez

Pascal Hendrikx

Didier Calavas

Alexandra Desprat

Jerome Languille

Loic Comtet

Philippe Pourquier

Jean-Francois Eleouet

Bernard Delmas

Philippe Marianneau

Damien Vitour

Stephan Zientara

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Abstract

After the unexpected emergence of Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) in northern Europe in 2006, another arbovirus, Schmallenberg virus (SBV), emerged in Europe in 2011 causing a new economically important disease in ruminants. The virus, belonging to the Orthobunyavirus genus in the Bunyaviridae family, was first detected in Germany, in The Netherlands and in Belgium in 2011 and soon after in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Denmark and Switzerland. This review describes the current knowledge on the emergence, epidemiology, clinical signs, molecular virology and diagnosis of SBV infection.

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