Key result
PCR identifies roe deer pestiviruses as a potentially distinct group separate from BVDV and swine fever.
The study identifies a potentially novel group of pestiviruses in wild roe deer distinct from bovine viral diarrhea virus.
May signal novel pestiviruses in wildlife; leaves open cross-species transmission risks and diagnostic implications.
Cytopathogenic pestiviruses were isolated from two seronegative free-ranging roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein): an adult female and a young buck collected on 6 December 1990 and 26 July 1991, respectively. The two isolates were identified by polymerase chain reaction as pestiviruses. However, they were negative when primers specific for bovine virus diarrhea virus or classical swine fever virus were used, indicating that the two isolates might belong to a separate group of pestiviruses of wild ruminants different from BVDV.
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Frölich et al. (1995) studied Pestivirus infection (n=2). Pestivirus isolation was evaluated on Identification of pestivirus isolates. Cytopathogenic pestiviruses isolated from two free-ranging roe deer were identified by PCR as belonging to a potentially separate group of pestiviruses distinct from BVDV and classical swine fever.