First isolation of Bunyamwera virus (Bunyaviridae family) from horses with neurological disease and an abortion in Argentina
2015
Tauro, Laura B. | Rivarola, Maria E. | Lucca, Eduardo | Mariño, Betina | Mazzini, Rubén | Cardoso, Jedson Ferreira | Barrandeguy, María Edith | Teixeira Nunes, Marcio Roberto | Contigiani, Marta S.
Bunyamwera virus (BUNV) is the prototype virus for both the Orthobunyavirus genus and the Bunyaviridae family. Different strains of BUNV have been associated with clinical diseases in domestic animals, mainly ruminants. During 2013, in Argentina's Santa Fe Province, three new isolates of BUNV were recovered from the brain and spleen of two horses with encephalitis, and from the brain of an aborted equine fetus. This isolation of BUNV from domestic animals provided the first association of BUNV infection with disease of the central nervous system and abortion in equines in Argentina.
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