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Peer-reviewed veterinary case report

Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006.

Journal:
Emerging infectious diseases
Year:
2007
Authors:
Toussaint, Jean-François et al.
Affiliation:
Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre

Abstract

Bluetongue has emerged recently in Belgium. A bluetongue virus strain was isolated and characterized as serotype 8. Two new real-time reverse transcription-quantitative PCRs (RT-qPCRs) that amplified 2 different segments of bluetongue virus detected this exotic strain. These 2 RT-qPCRs detected infection earlier than a competitive ELISA for antibody detection.

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Original publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17553280/