Bluetongue (BT) is an insect-transmitted viral disease of wild and domestic ruminants and,
occasionally, other species. Amongst domestic livestock, BT is most common in certain …

Arthropod-transmitted viruses (Arboviruses) are important causes of disease in humans and
animals, and it is proposed that climate change will increase the distribution and severity of …

Emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 lineages are under the spotlight of the media, scientific
community and governments. Recent reports of novel variants in the United Kingdom, South …

The detection of the bluetongue virus (BTV) by conventional methods is especially difficult
and labour-intensive. Molecular diagnosis is also complex because of the high genetic …

This paper reports significant improvements in the efficacy of sequence-independent
amplification and quality of sequencing of viruses with segmented double-stranded RNA …

Genetic bottlenecks are stochastic events that limit genetic variation in a population and
result in founding populations that can lead to genetic drift. Evidence of past genetic …

After the incursion of bluetongue virus (BTV) into European Mediterranean countries in
1998, vaccination was used in an effort to minimize direct economic losses to animal …

Genetic exchange by a process of genome-segment 'reassortment'represents an important
mechanism for evolutionary change in all viruses with segmented genomes, yet in many …

The duration of viraemia infectious to Culicoides sonorensis (C. sonorensis) was evaluated
in bluetongue virus (BTV)-infected sheep and cattle by feeding laboratory-reared C …

Bluetongue (BT) is an economically important, non-contagious viral disease of domestic and
wild ruminants. BT is caused by BT virus (BTV) and it belongs to the genus Orbivirus and …