Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus type 7 infection in cattle in Israel
Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus type 7 infection in cattle in Israel
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DOI:
10.1136/vr.162.2.53
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发表时间:
2008-01-12
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Mertens, P. P. C.
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作者:
Yadin, H.;Brenner, J.;Mertens, P. P. C.
EPIZOOTIC haemorrhagic disease (EHD) virus (EHDV) infection was first reported in wild ruminants in New Jersey, USA, during August 1955 by Shope and others (1955). However, evidence gathered during that study revealed that outbreaks of the disease had been occurring periodically in the USA since 1890 (Shope and others 1955), and had been variously diagnosed as blackleg, mycotic stomatitis, black tongue or haemorrhagic septicemia. Similar outbreaks were also recorded between August and September in the late 1950s in the US states of New Jersey, Washington, Michigan and South Dakota (Shope and others 1960). The disease was termed EHD in view of its wide spatial distribution of outbreaks in the USA and Canada. During August to December 1959 a similar disease, characterised by fever and stomatitis in cattle, occurred in Japan (Inaba 1975). Although it was initially confused with other epizootic diseases in Japanese cattle, including ‘bovine epizootic fever’or ‘bovine influenza’, it was eventually called ‘Ibaraki disease’(Goto 1959). The aetiological agents responsible for EHD and Ibaraki disease were shown to be viruses by the experimental induction of typical clinical signs in the USA (Shope and others 1955), and in Japan (Omori and others 1969a, b) where some authors called it ‘bluetongue-like’disease (Omori 1961, Inaba and others 1966). Most wild deer infected with EHDV succumbed while they were ill, before being examined. The first extensive description of the disease was therefore based on observations of experimentally infected deer (Shope and others 1960). An unusual feature of EHD is that it is caused by more than one serological type of virus, a feature shared by some other viral diseases including bluetongue, foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis and influenza (Shope and others 1960). The clinical manifestations of EHD are also similar to those caused by bluetongue virus (BTV), including oedema of the conjunctiva, the oral and nasal mucous membranes and the muzzle (Radostits and others 2007). The generic name ‘haemorrhagic diseases’ has been adopted to encompass bluetongue, Ibaraki disease and EHD. In some cases of Ibaraki disease or EHD, erosions and/or ulcerations develop at the coronets, causing lameness, and the tongue can become swollen, resembling the characteristic clinical signs of bluetongue. Outbreaks caused by concurrent EHD and BTV infections have also been reported in white-tailed deer (Prestwood and others 1974, Thomas and others 1974) and cattle (Foster and others 1980, Osburn and Miller 1983). Bluetongue, EHD and Ibaraki disease are all caused by orbiviruses; Ibaraki virus is now recognised as a strain of EHDV serotype 2, and it shares cross-reactive epitopes with other EHDV strains/serotypes (Nara Periera and others 2000). However, BTV (the prototype orbivirus) represents a distinct virus species, and shows little if any serological crossreaction with EHDV (Campbell and others 1978). On September 5, 2006, The Israeli Veterinary Field Services were notified of a novel disease syndrome in cattle; the first clinical signs had been seen towards the end of August. The outbreak was first noticed on several dairy farms in the southern Jordan River Valley in Israel (part of the Rift Valley); affected cows showed a 10 to 20 per cent reduction in milk production and loss of appetite, followed by clinical signs of reduced rumination, a short-term low fever, weakness and stiff gait. Additional signs included prominent serous to purulent nasal discharge, excessive salivation, and nasal and lip redness, with scaling and tongue swelling, cyanosis and erosions. Petechiae …