1.
Emerg Infect Dis
; 20(9): 1576-8, 2014 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25153340
Assuntos
Doenças dos Bovinos/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Bovinos/virologia , Vaccinia virus/isolamento & purificação , Vacínia/veterinária , Animais , Argentina/epidemiologia , Bovinos , Doenças dos Bovinos/história , História do Século XXI , Tipagem Molecular , Sorotipagem , Vaccinia virus/classificação , Vaccinia virus/genética
2.
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
; 46: 16-9, 2016 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27260805
RESUMO
In Brazil, serologic evidence of Orthopoxvirus (OPV) circulation showed positivity around 20% in cattle, humans, monkeys and rodents. Although OPV seropositivity has been described in buffalo herds in southeastern Brazil, no Vaccinia virus (VACV) (member of genus OPV) outbreaks in buffalo herds have been described in this country. This study aimed to investigate the detection of anti-OPV antibodies and to study the OPV genome in Brazilian buffalo herds. Our results demonstrated a high OPV seropositivity in buffalo herds on Marajó Island and molecular data confirmed the circulation of VACV. The geographical isolation conditionmight be a sine qua non condition to explain our results.