Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Mar;16(3):518-20. doi: 10.3201/eid1603.090626.
We studied the potential of red deer as bluetongue maintenance hosts and sentinels. Deer maintained detectable bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 4 RNA for 1 year after the virus was cleared from livestock. However, the virus was not transmitted to yearlings. BTV serotype 1 RNA was detected in red deer immediately after its first detection in cattle.
我们研究了赤鹿作为蓝舌病维持宿主和监测哨的潜力。在牲畜中清除蓝舌病病毒(BTV)血清型 4 病毒后,鹿可维持长达 1 年的可检测 BTV 血清型 4 RNA。然而,该病毒并未传播给幼鹿。在牛群中首次检测到 BTV 血清型 1 后,立即在赤鹿中检测到了 BTV 血清型 1 RNA。