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Antigenic and genetic characterisation of border disease viruses isolated from UK cattle.
Veterinary microbiology - 24 Mar 2010
Strong R, La Rocca S A, Ibata G, Sandvik T
Abstract excerpt
Available empirical data on the natural occurrence of ruminant pestiviruses has shown that in cattle, bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is nearly exclusively found, whereas both border disease virus (BDV) and BVDV can be isolated from sheep. During routine genetic typing of pestivirus RNA from UK cattle diagnosed as BVDV positive between 2006 and 2008, five samples that were classified as BDV positive yielded...
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