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Transbound Emerg Dis
; 68(2): 220-223, 2021 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33108681
ABSTRACT
Bluetongue virus serotype 4 (BTV-4) was confirmed in sheep in North Macedonia in July 2020. The full genome of this BTV-4 strain (MKD2020/06) was shown to be most closely related (99.74% nt identity) to the Greek GRE2014/08 and the Hungarian HUN1014 strains, indicating the re-emergence of this BTV serotype in the Balkan region since it was last reported in 2017.