Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2021)

Equine Herpesvirus 1 Variant and New Marker for Epidemiologic Surveillance, Europe, 2021

  • Gabrielle Sutton,
  • Camille Normand,
  • Flora Carnet,
  • Anne Couroucé,
  • Marie Garvey,
  • Sophie Castagnet,
  • Christine I. Fortier,
  • Erika S. Hue,
  • Christel Marcillaud-Pitel,
  • Loïc Legrand,
  • Romain Paillot,
  • Pierre-Hugues Pitel,
  • Ann Cullinane,
  • Stéphane Pronost

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2710.210704
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 10
pp. 2738 – 2739

Abstract

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Equine herpesvirus 1 isolates from a 2021 outbreak of neurologic disease in Europe have a mutation, A713G, in open reading frame 11 not detected in 249 other sequences from equine herpesvirus 1 isolates. This single-nucleotide polymorphism could help identify horses infected with the virus strain linked to this outbreak.

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