TY - JOUR AU - Toussaint, Jean-François AU - Sailleau, Corinne AU - Mast, Jan AU - Houdart, Philippe AU - Czaplicki, Guy AU - Demeestere, Lien AU - Vandenbussche, Frank AU - van Dessel, Wesley AU - Goris, Nesya AU - Bréard, Emmanuel AU - Bounaadja, Lotfi AU - Thiry, Etienne AU - Zientara, Stephan AU - De Clercq, Kris T1 - Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 4 SP - 614 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Bluetongue has emerged recently in Belgium. A bluetongue virus strain was isolated and characterized as serotype 8. Two new real-time reverse transcription–quantitative PCRs (RT-qPCRs) that amplified 2 different segments of bluetongue virus detected this exotic strain. These 2 RT-qPCRs detected infection earlier than a competitive ELISA for antibody detection. KW - Bluetongue KW - Bluetongue virus KW - Europe KW - Belgium KW - arbovirus KW - cattle KW - sheep KW - real-time PCR KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1304.061136 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/4/06-1136_article ER - End of Reference