Clinical variations of border disease in sheep according to the source of the inoculum

Vet Rec. 1983 Jul 16;113(3):58-60. doi: 10.1136/vr.113.3.58.

Abstract

Non-cytopathogenic pestivirus obtained from lambs with border disease, with or without nervous signs, was inoculated into pregnant ewes at 57 to 65 days of gestation. Live lambs born to inoculated ewes were clinically identical to the lambs from which virus was obtained, ie, either a hairy birth coat with central nervous system disturbance or a hairy birth coat without central nervous system disturbance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Veterinary / etiology*
  • Animals
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / congenital
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / transmission
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / veterinary
  • Female
  • Pestivirus
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / veterinary
  • Sheep
  • Sheep Diseases / congenital
  • Sheep Diseases / transmission*
  • Togaviridae Infections / congenital
  • Togaviridae Infections / transmission
  • Togaviridae Infections / veterinary*