Viral surveillance programs or diagnostic labs occasionally obtain infectious samples that
fail to be typed by available cell culture, serological, or nucleic acid tests. Five such samples …

Bluetongue (BT), caused by Bluetongue virus (BTV), is an economically important disease
affecting sheep, deer, cattle, and goats. Since 1998, a series of BT outbreaks have spread …

Viruses are serious threats to human and animal health. Only few successful antiviral
treatments are available for viral infections. Therefore, early and rapid detection and …

Bluetongue virus (BTV), prototype species of genus Orbivirus, belongs to the family
Reoviridae. It is a non-enveloped, double shelled virus with ten segmented dsRNA genome …

Twenty five serotypes of Bluetongue virus (BTV) have been identified worldwide. Rapid and
reliable methods of virus universal detection are essential for fighting against bluetongue …

Diagnosis and control of viruses that cause diseases in domestic and wild animals and
human, pose continuous challenges to veterinary and medical sciences. Many techniques …

The genome segment 7 of two Indian isolates of bluetongue virus (BTV) from Avikanagar
(BTV-1-western India) and Hyderabad (BTV-Untyped Hyderabad-southern India) was …

Viruses are serious threats to human and animal health. Only few successful antiviral
treatments are available for viral infections. Therefore, early and rapid detection and …

In the present study, vp7 gene specific primer pair was used to amplify two cell culture
adapted Indian isolates of bluetongue virus (BTV-1 Avikanagar, BTV-15 Hyderabad). The …