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Re‐emergence of BTV serotype 4 in North Macedonia, July 2020
Author(s) -
Flannery John,
King Simon,
RajkoNenow Paulina,
Popova Zagorka,
Krstevski Kiril,
Djadjovski Igor,
Batten Carrie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transboundary and emerging diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.392
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1865-1682
pISSN - 1865-1674
DOI - 10.1111/tbed.13900
Subject(s) - serotype , virology , strain (injury) , biology , genome , orbivirus , virus , geography , reoviridae , genetics , gene , anatomy , rotavirus
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.