“…BIV has a worldwide distribution, and seropositive dairy and beef cattle have been recorded in many countries, including the United States (Cockerell et al., 1992), Canada (McNab et al., 1994), Iran (Nikbakht Brujeni et al., 2010; Tajbakhsh et al., 2010), Germany (Muluneh, 1994), France (Polack et al., 1996), Switzerland (Gene, 1994), Australia (Forman et al., 1992), the United Kingdom (Clayton, 1994), Japan (Hirai et al., 1996; Meas et al., 1998), Italy (Cavirani et al., 1998), Korea (Cho et al., 1999), Mexico (González‐Fernández et al., 2020), India (Patil et al., 2003) and Brazil (Meas et al., 2002; Rodrigues et al., 2019). However, very few publications can be found in the literature addressing the prevalence of the virus in buffaloes (Albernaz et al., 2015; Bhatia et al., 2006; Meas, Ohashi, et al., 2000; Meas, Seto, et al., 2000).…”