Protective efficacy of Bluetongue virus-like and subvirus-like particles in sheep: presence of the serotype-specific VP2, independent of its geographic lineage, is essential for protection.

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There have been multiple separate outbreaks of Bluetongue (BT) disease of ruminants in Europe since 1998, often entering via the Mediterranean countries of Italy, Spain and Greece. BT is caused by an orbivirus, Bluetongue virus (BTV), a member of the family Reoviridae. BTV is a non-enveloped double-capsid virus, which encodes 7 structural proteins (VP1-VP7) and several non-structural proteins (NS1, NS2, NS3/3a...

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