A dairy farm with 300 Holstein cattle in Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan, had an outbreak of a respiratory disease from the end of September to November, 2013. Adult animals (1-5-yearold) showed clinical symptoms of anorexia, depression, fever, and dropped milk production during the early stage of infection. In severe cases, animals su®ered from dyspnea with frothy saliva at the edge of opened mouth. Samples were collected from eight sick animals, ampli¯ed in the baby hamster kidney cell-21 (BHK-21), and the cytopathic e®ect (CPE) was con¯rmed. Primers speci¯c to Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV), Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), Bovine herpesvirus type I (BHV-I), Bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) and Mannheimia haemolytica were used to identify the pathogen responsible for this respiratory disease by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Results of sequence analysis con¯rmed that BRSV is the causative pathogen for the respiratory infection. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the¯rst disease case of BRSV reported in Taiwan.