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Arch Virol ; 164(12): 3095-3098, 2019 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31606853

ABSTRACT

Bovine alphaherpesvirus 2 (BoHV-2) is the etiologic agent of bovine mammillitis (BM) and pseudo-lumpy skin disease. BM is also important because its clinical presentation can be confused with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), making it necessary to establish differential diagnoses and perform additional laboratory tests. The objective of this work was to use a validated real-time PCR assay to test for the presence of BoHV-2 in samples from cattle and buffalo with suspected vesicular disease in Brazil. The method could detect the virus at a concentration of 0.5 fg/µL and had 99.4% amplification efficiency, a repeatability error of only 4.1%, and good reproducibility with other reagents. No evidence of BoHV-2 causing vesicular disease in cattle and buffalo was found in this work. This study was able to validate a new methodology for detection of BoHV-2 and evaluate its usefulness for investigating outbreaks of vesicular disease Brazil. The importance of BoHV-2 in cases involving other clinical signs should still be studied using the qPCR developed in this work.


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Cattle Diseases/virology , Herpesviridae Infections/veterinary , Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/isolation & purification , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods , Animals , Brazil/epidemiology , Buffaloes/virology , Cattle , Cattle Diseases/epidemiology , Herpesviridae Infections/epidemiology , Herpesviridae Infections/virology , Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/classification , Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/genetics
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Arch Virol ; 164(12): 3059-3063, 2019 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31549301

ABSTRACT

Swine are the only known hosts of swinepox virus (SWPV), the sole member of the genus Suipoxvirus, family Poxviridae. Rapid diagnosis is recommended for appropriate interventions because of the high morbidity associated with this virus. This study describes a real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay for rapid detection and quantification of SWPV. The detection limit, repeatability, reproducibility, and specificity of this assay were determined. The efficiency was 96%, and the R2 value was 0.996. The detection limit was 1 fg or 10-0.5 TCID50/50 µL. Tests showed that the greatest source of error in the SWPV qPCR assay was variation between analysts rather than different qPCR kits or equipment. All nucleic acids from other viruses or samples collected from swine were negative in the specificity test. qPCR for SWPV is a new method with tested variables that allows main sources of error in laboratory diagnosis and viral quantification to be identified.


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Poxviridae Infections/diagnosis , Suipoxvirus/genetics , Swine Diseases/virology , Animals , DNA, Viral/genetics , Limit of Detection , Poxviridae Infections/veterinary , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction , Suipoxvirus/classification , Suipoxvirus/isolation & purification , Swine
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