Article
Isolation and identification of a variant of bluetongue virus serotype 11 from a ram in a bluetongue outbreak in western Texas.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 1991
Chung S I, Billingsley P, Livingston C W, Collisson E W
Abstract excerpt
A field strain of bluetongue virus was isolated from a blood sample of a ram during an outbreak of bluetongue in November 1985 in western Texas. In this bluetongue outbreak at least 25 of the 2,000 sheep were infected. Isolation was made by intravenous inoculation of 11-day-old embryonated chicke...
Topics
- Animals
- Bluetongue
- Bluetongue virus
- Disease Outbreaks
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Proteins
- RNA, Viral
- Serotyping
- Sheep
- Texas
