Concurrent infection of bluetongue and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants in Haryana State of India

Bluetongue (BT) and peste-des-petits-ruminants (PPR) are major transboundary diseases of small ruminant, which are endemic in India. Testing of bluetongue virus (BTV) and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) from recent outbreaks (2015–2016) in different regions of Haryana State of India revealed...

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Main Authors: Maan, Sushila, Kumar, Aman, Gupta, Akhil Kumar, Dalal, Anita, Chaudhary, Deepika, Gupta, Tarun Kumar, Bansal, Nitish, Kumar, Vinjay, Batra, Kanisht, Sindhu, Neelesh, Kumar, Ankit, Mahajan, Nand K., Maan, Narender Singh, Mertens, Peter P.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40478/
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Summary:Bluetongue (BT) and peste-des-petits-ruminants (PPR) are major transboundary diseases of small ruminant, which are endemic in India. Testing of bluetongue virus (BTV) and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) from recent outbreaks (2015–2016) in different regions of Haryana State of India revealed that 27.5% of the samples showed the presence of dual infection of BTV and PPRV. Analysis of Seg-2 of BTV (the serotype-determining protein) showed the presence of BTV-12w in several isolates. However, analysis of N gene fragment amplicons showed that viruses belong to lineage IV were most closely related to a pathogenic strain of PPRV from Delhi. This is the first report of co-circulation of PPRV lineage IV and bluetongue virus serotype 12 in the state.