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DfID Project R7361, Final Technical Report, Jembrana disease virus and fatal infection of Bali cattle

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Publication date
28/05/2003
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Studies
Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Commodity:
Livestock
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/AnimalHealth/R7361-BROWNLIE-FTR.pdf
Author
Brownlie, J.

Jembrana disease virus (JDV) causes a potentially fatal infection of Bali cattle that is endemic on the island of Bali. This project developed a cell line expressing JDV tat protein that may stimulate virus growth in culture, but which has ey to be infected with JDV. It also developed a robust in vitro test which will detect recombinant JDV protein. The potential for this assay to detect viral antigen in samples from infected cattle is very high.