title: Confirmation of Elsey virus infection in a Queensland horse with mild neurologic signs.
abstract: In 2011, a 2-year-old horse in northern Queensland, Australia, was reported to have developed mild neurologic signs, and a blood sample was submitted for laboratory investigation. Virus isolation was performed using the blood sample, and an orbivirus was isolated. This was confirmed to be a strain of Elsey virus (ELSV) after transmission electron microscopy and nucleotide sequencing. The nucleotide sequence was compared with those in GenBank, and had 100% identity with ELSV previously reported from the Northern Territory, Australia. ELSV is taxonomically closely related to Peruvian horse sickness virus.
authors.affiliation: Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland Department of Agriculture, and Fisheries (DAF), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Pease, Oakey)Tropical and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, DAF, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Campbell) kalpana.agnihotri@daf.qld.gov.au.
authors.forename: Kalpana
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Agnihotri
authors.affiliation: Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland Department of Agriculture, and Fisheries (DAF), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Pease, Oakey)Tropical and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, DAF, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Campbell).
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pease
authors.affiliation: Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland Department of Agriculture, and Fisheries (DAF), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Pease, Oakey)Tropical and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, DAF, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Campbell).
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oakey
authors.affiliation: Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland Department of Agriculture, and Fisheries (DAF), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Pease, Oakey)Tropical and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, DAF, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (Agnihotri, Campbell).
authors.forename: Grant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology; D006736:Horses; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D018163:Orbivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011793:Queensland; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000662:veterinary
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral
keywords: Australia; Elsey virus, Orbivirus; Peruvian horse sickness virus