Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2007)

Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006

  • Jean-François Toussaint,
  • Corinne Sailleau,
  • Jan Mast,
  • Philippe Houdart,
  • Guy Czaplicki,
  • Lien Demeestere,
  • Frank Vandenbussche,
  • Wesley van Dessel,
  • Nesya Goris,
  • Emmanuel Bréard,
  • Lotfi Bounaadja,
  • Etienne Thiry,
  • Stephan Zientara,
  • Kris De Clercq

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1304.061136
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
pp. 614 – 614

Abstract

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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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