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VETERINARY RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13567-015-0232-x
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- UFOPLAN [3709 41 401, 3713 48 401]
- Germany Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and consumer protection
- European Union by the Union for studies on Schmallenberg virus [2012/349/EU]
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To identify native wildlife species possibly susceptible to infection with Schmallenberg virus (SBV), a midge-transmitted orthobunyavirus that predominantly infects domestic ruminants, samples from various free-living ruminants, but also carnivores, small mammals and wild boar were analyzed serologically. Before 2011, no SBV-specific antibodies were detectable in any of the tested species, thereafter, a large proportion of the ruminant population became seropositive, while every sample taken from carnivores or small mammals tested negative. Surprisingly, SBV-specific-antibodies were also present in a large number of blood samples from wild boar during the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 hunting seasons. Hence, free-ranging artiodactyls may play a role as wildlife host.
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