The Isolation of a Bluetongue Virus From Culicoides Collected in the Northern Territory of Australia

Td, St George; Ha, Standfast; Cybinski, D. H.; Al, Dyce; Mj, Muller; Doherty, R. L.; Carley, J. G.; Filippich, Cheryl; Cl, Frazier

doi:10.1111/j.1751-0813.1978.tb05539.x

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“…The detection of BTV in the USA the following year represented an even more dramatic expansion in the known distribution of the virus, and one initially deemed so unlikely that this outbreak was assumed to represent an entirely new disease, termed 'soremuzzle' (Hardy & Price 1952). BTV was first confirmed in Asia during 1961 when an outbreak of the disease was detected in India (Sapre 1964), and then in Australia where the virus was isolated from Culicoides collected near Darwin in 1975(St George et al 1978. In Europe, meanwhile, a major outbreak owing to BTV-10 ravaged the sheep populations of Spain and Portugal between 1956 and 1960 causing the deaths of almost 180 000 animals (Manso-Ribeiro et al 1957) and a smaller outbreak of BTV-4 occurred on several Greek islands near the Anatolian Turkish coast in 1979 (Vassalos 1980).…”

Section: Global Bluetongue Virus Distribution and Activity (Pre-1998)mentioning

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Bluetongue in Europe: past, present and future

Wilson

Mellor

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The recent arrival in Northern and Western (NW) Europe of bluetongue virus (BTV), which causes the ruminant disease ‘bluetongue’, has raised the profile of this vector-borne ruminant disease and sparked discussions on the reasons for its sudden emergence so far north. This expansion has not happened in isolation and the disease has been expanding into Southern and Eastern Europe for the last decade. This shifting disease distribution is being facilitated by a number of different introduction mechanisms including the movement of infected livestock, the passive movement of infected Culicoides on the wind and, in NW Europe, an unknown route of introduction. The expansion of BTV in Europe has forced a re-evaluation of the importance of Palaearctic Culicoides species in transmission, as well as the importance of secondary transmission routes, such as transplacental transmission, in facilitating the persistence of the virus. The current European outbreak of BTV-8 is believed to have caused greater economic damage than any previous single-serotype outbreak. Although attempts are being made to improve the capacity of European countries to cope with future BTV incursions, the options available are limited by a lack of basic entomological data and limited virological surveillance.

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Section: Global Bluetongue Virus Distribution and Activity (Pre-1998)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bluetongue in Europe: past, present and future

Wilson

Mellor

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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356

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“…Bluetongue virus type 20 was isolated from a mixed pool of species of Culieoides at Beatrice Hill in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1976 (St George et al, 1976). Verwoerd et al (1979) reported some cross-reaction in serum neutralization tests between type 20 and types 4 and 17 while Della-Porta et al (1981) using similar tests suggested that type 20 is closely related to type 4 and could be regarded as a subtype of type 4.…”

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Comparison of Bluetongue Type 20 with Certain Viruses of the Bluetongue and Eubenangee Serological Groups of Orbiviruses

Gorman

Taylor

Walker

et al. 1981

Journal of General Virology

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“…One isolation (CSIRO 19) was identified as bluetongue virus at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit (St George et al 1978b). It was later typed at the World Reference Laboratory, Onderstepoort, South Africa, as serotype 20, a new serotype of bluetongue virus (Snowdon 1979).…”

Section: Bluetongue Serogroupmentioning

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Isolation of Arboviruses from Insects Collected at Beatrice Hill, Northern Territory of Australia, 1974?1976

Ha¹,

Al²,

Td³

et al. 1984

Aust. Jnl. Of Bio. Sci.

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Between October 1974 and May 1976, 57596 mosquitoes, 169957 Culicoides, 5923 Lasiohelea and 1043 phlebotomines were collected for virus isolation at Beatrice Hill (lat. 12�39'S.,long. 131�20'E.) in the Northern Territory of Australia. A total of 94 viruses belonging to 22 different serological groupings was isolated. The following species of insect yielded viruses which were identified and those viruses marked with an asterisk represent a new record of insect host:

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The Isolation of a Bluetongue Virus From Culicoides Collected in the Northern Territory of Australia

Cited by 96 publications

References 6 publications

Bluetongue in Europe: past, present and future

Bluetongue in Europe: past, present and future

Comparison of Bluetongue Type 20 with Certain Viruses of the Bluetongue and Eubenangee Serological Groups of Orbiviruses

Isolation of Arboviruses from Insects Collected at Beatrice Hill, Northern Territory of Australia, 1974?1976

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