ANALYSIS OF MIXED INFECTION OF SHEEP WITH BLUETONGUE VIRUS SEROTYPE-10 AND SEROTYPE-17 - EVIDENCE FOR GENETIC REASSORTMENT IN THE VERTEBRATE HOST
ANALYSIS OF MIXED INFECTION OF SHEEP WITH BLUETONGUE VIRUS SEROTYPE-10 AND SEROTYPE-17 - EVIDENCE FOR GENETIC REASSORTMENT IN THE VERTEBRATE HOST
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DOI:
10.1128/jvi.61.4.1086-1091.1987
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发表时间:
1987-04-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
RAMIG, RF
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作者:
SAMAL, SK;LIVINGSTON, CW;RAMIG, RF
Two seronegative sheep were infected intravenously with 109 PFU each of bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 10 and BTV serotype 17. One animal experienced a mild bluetongue-like disease, and both experienced a short-duration viremia and developed neutralizing immune responses to both virus serotypes. Progeny virus was isolated from venous blood from each animal by using conditions in which reassortment could not have occurred during isolation. Electropherotypes were determined for the progeny viruses from the infected sheep, yielding strikingly similar results for the two animals. In both sheep, serotype 10 dominated among the progeny, accounting for 92% of the progeny. Serotype 17 was rarely isoalted and accounted for 3% of the progeny analyzed. The remaining 5% of the progeny clones were reassortant and derived genome segments from both serotypes 10 and 17. Analysis of the parental origin of genome segments in the small number of reassortant progeny analyzed suggested that selection of specific genome segments may have occurred in the infected sheep. These data indicate that reassortment of genome segments occurs, at low frequency, in sheep mixedly infected with BTV.