Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2015)

Getah Virus Infection among Racehorses, Japan, 2014

  • Manabu Nemoto,
  • Hiroshi Bannai,
  • Koji Tsujimura,
  • Minoru Kobayashi,
  • Takuya Kikuchi,
  • Takashi Yamanaka,
  • Takashi Kondo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2105.141975
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 5
pp. 883 – 885

Abstract

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An outbreak of Getah virus infection occurred among racehorses in Japan during September and October 2014. Of 49 febrile horses tested by reverse transcription PCR, 25 were positive for Getah virus. Viruses detected in 2014 were phylogenetically different from the virus isolated in Japan in 1978.

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