Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Bluetongue Epidemiology in the European Union

Claude Saegerman*

, Dirk Berkvens†, and Philip S. Mellor‡

Author affiliations: *University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; †Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; ‡Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, Surrey, UK

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The molecular epidemiology of bluetongue virus (BTV) since 1998: routes of introduction of different serotypes and individual virus strains. *Presence of BTV-specific neutralizing antibodies in animals in Bulgaria, but the presence of BTV serotype 8 cannot yet be confirmed.

Figure 1. The molecular epidemiology of bluetongue virus (BTV) since 1998: routes of introduction of different serotypes and individual virus strains. *Presence of BTV-specific neutralizing antibodies in animals in Bulgaria, but the presence of BTV serotype 8 cannot yet be confirmed.

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