| Title: |
Circulation of Bluetongue Virus Serotypes 1, 4, 8, 10 and 16 and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in the Sultanate of Oman in 2020–2021 |
| Authors: |
Emmanuel Bréard; Lydie Postic; Mathilde Gondard; Cindy Bernelin-Cottet; Aurélie Le Roux; Mathilde Turpaud; Pierrick Lucas; Yannick Blanchard; Damien Vitour; Labib Bakkali-Kassimi; Stéphan Zientara; Wafaa Al Rawahi; Corinne Sailleau |
| Source: |
Viruses, Vol 15, Iss 6, p 1259 (2023) |
| Publisher Information: |
MDPI AG |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| Subject Terms: |
bluetongue; epizootic hemorrhagic disease; the Sultanate of Oman; BTV serotype 8; Microbiology; QR1-502 |
| Description: |
The circulation of Bluetongue (BT) and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in the Middle East has already been reported following serological analyses carried out since the 1980s, mostly on wild ruminants. Thus, an EHD virus (EHDV) strain was isolated in Bahrain in 1983 (serotype 6), and more recently, BT virus (BTV) serotypes 1, 4, 8 and 16 have been isolated in Oman. To our knowledge, no genomic sequence of these different BTV strains have been published. These same BTV or EHDV serotypes have circulated and, for some of them, are still circulating in the Mediterranean basin and/or in Europe. In this study, we used samples from domestic ruminant herds collected in Oman in 2020 and 2021 for suspected foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) to investigate the presence of BTV and EHDV in these herds. Sera and whole blood from goats, sheep and cattle were tested for the presence of viral genomes (by PCR) and antibodies (by ELISA). We were able to confirm the presence of 5 BTV serotypes (1, 4, 8, 10 and 16) and the circulation of EHDV in this territory in 2020 and 2021. The isolation of a BTV-8 strain allowed us to sequence its entire genome and to compare it with another BTV-8 strain isolated in Mayotte and with homologous BTV sequences available on GenBank. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/6/1259; https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4915; https://doaj.org/article/090e0b24475947da8c4ae6f8cdf9748d |
| DOI: |
10.3390/v15061259 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.3390/v15061259; https://doaj.org/article/090e0b24475947da8c4ae6f8cdf9748d |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6B360810 |
| Database: |
BASE |