First isolation of Bunyamwera virus (Bunyaviridae family) from horses with neurological disease and an abortion in Argentina

TAURO LAURA BEATRIZ; RIVAROLA, MARIA ELISA; LUCCA, EDUARDO; MARINO , BETINA; RUBEN MAZZINI; JEDSON FERREIRA CARDOSO; MARIA EDITH BARRANDEGUY; NUNES , MARCIO ROBERTO T.; CONTIGIANI, MARTA

The Veterinary Journal

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2015

1090-0233

Bunyamwera virus (BUNV) is the prototype virus for both the Orthobunyavirus genus and the Bunyaviridaefamily. Different strains of BUNV have been associated with clinical diseases in domestic animals, mainlyruminants. During 2013, in Argentina?s Santa Fe Province, three new isolates of BUNV were recoveredfrom the brain and spleen of two horses with encephalitis, and from the brain of an aborted equine fetus.This isolation of BUNV from domestic animals provided the first association of BUNV infection with diseaseof the central nervous system and abortion in equines in Argentina