Molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of ruminant herpesviruses including bovine, buffalo and caprine herpesviruses l and bovine encephalitis herpesvirus.
Restriction endonuclease DNA fingerprints of herpesviruses isolated from 3 unrelated epidemics of bovine encephalitis are similar to each other and totally different from bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1). Herpesviruses, antigenically related to BHV1, isolated from goats and buffalo have distinct DNA fingerprints. We propose that bovine encephalitis herpesvirus is prototypic of a new bovine herpesvirus type and that alpha herpes viruses from individual ruminant species are species specific.
D000818:Animals; D002020:Buffaloes; D002417:Cattle; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004668:Encephalitis Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006041:Goats; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007242:Herpesvirus 1, Bovine / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013045:Species Specificity
D004279:DNA, Viral; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes