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Peer-reviewed veterinary case report

First report of bovine herpesvirus 1 isolation from bull semen samples in China.

Journal:
Acta virologica
Year:
2017
Authors:
Zhu, L et al.

Abstract

Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) infection causes substantial economic losses to the cattle industry worldwide. So far, the isolation of BoHV-1 field virus has not been reported in China. Here, for the first time we report that two isolates of BoHV-1 designated as NJ16-1 and NJ16-2 were obtained from semen samples from breeding bulls in China. Typical cytopathic effect in MDBK cells, detection of viral protein VP16 in western blot analysis, PCR detection of BoHV-1 gB gene proved BoHV-1 infection and subsequent nucleotide sequence analysis showed a 99% identity with BoHV-1 Cooper strain. These results suggest that these isolated viruses are BoHV-1.

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Original publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29186966/