Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 144, Issue 9, Pages 1876-1878Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268816000029
Keywords
Caliciviridae; cattle diseases; diarrhoea; molecular epidemiology
Funding
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2006/52060-3, 2012/18441-0]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [472509/2010-1]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Nebovirus is a new genus of viruses belonging to the Caliciviridae family recently characterized in cattle, and is associated with gastrointestinal disorders, such as diarrhoea, anorexia and intestinal lesions particularly in calves. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of neboviruses in Brazilian cattle and analyse phylogenetically the virus strains detected. A prevalence of 4.8% of neboviruses in faecal samples from 62 head of cattle from different Brazilian states was detected. All positive animals were aged <20 days and had diarrhoea. Phylogenetic analysis clustered the virus sequences into the Newbury1 clade. There was >96.0% nt (100% aa) sequence identity between the virus sequences in this study and >88.8% nt (>94.4% aa) identity with Newbury1/UK. Our results indicate, for the first time, the occurrence of neboviruses in Brazil as well as in South America, and the first Newbury1-like nebovirus found outside the UK.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available