Authors: Harun Albayrak Semra Okur Gumusova Emre Ozan Zafer Yazici
Publish Date: 2011/08/14
Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 677-680
Abstract
All pestiviruses are important veterinary pathogens causing economic losses in cattle sheep and pigs Besides the important economical losses pestiviruses may compromise the normal immune response to other pathogens and increase the severity of other infections in sheep In this study aborted foetuses cattle and sheep in either coastal or inland Black Sea region of Turkey were surveyed for the presence of RNA from pestiviruses bovine viral diarrhoea virus BVDV border disease virus BDV The presence of BVDV RNA was found in 6 of 21 aborted calves 2857 although BDV RNA was detected in 14 of 21 aborted lambs 6666 by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction This study also investigates the distribution of viral RNA within the brain liver and lung of aborted foetuses The viral RNA positivity rates for the organs varied and were as follows brain 4047 and liver and lung 3809 The results revealed that pestiviruses are important abort pathogen in the provinces of northern Turkey
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