Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 142, Issue 7, Pages 1501-1504Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813002525
Keywords
Cattle; Schmallenberg virus; transmission; within-herd prevalence
Funding
- German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- European Union [2012/349/EU]
- Union for studies on Schmallenberg virus
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In late 2011, the insect-transmitted Schmallenberg virus (SBV) emerged in Europe. In this study, a cattle farm located in the core region of the epidemic was closely monitored between May 2011 and January 2012. Up to the end of September every tested serum sample was negative by an SBV-specific antibody ELISA, suggesting the absence of an infection before autumn 2011. Around the end of September/beginning of October SBV genome was detected in blood samples of some animals, and a few cows exhibited fever during that period. Starting at the end of September the first cows seroconverted; the within-herd prevalence reached 100% within barely 1 month. Consequently, SBV spread rapidly in the tested herd during the vector season of 2011.
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