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Volume 30, Number 8—August 2024
Research

Emergence of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 3, the Netherlands, September 2023

Melle Holwerda1Comments to Author , Inge M.G.A. Santman-Berends1, Frank Harders, Marc Engelsma, Rianka P.M. Vloet, Eveline Dijkstra, Rene G.P. van Gennip, Maria H. Mars, Marcel Spierenburg, Lotte Roos, René van den Brom1, and Piet A. van Rijn1
Author affiliations: Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Lelystad, the Netherlands (M. Holwerda, F. Harders, M. Engelsma, R.P.M. Vloet, R.G.P. van Gennip, P.A. van Rijn); Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands (I.M.G.A. Santman-Berends, E. Dijkstra, M.H. Mars, L. Roos, R. van den Brom); Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Utrecht, the Netherlands (M. Spierenburg); North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa (P.A. van Rijn)

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Table 1

Average sequence coverage for each genome segment of 3 BTV-3 isolates in study of emergence of BTV-3 in the Netherlands, September 2023*

Sample no. Ct value Average no. reads/nucleotide for each genome segment
Seg-1 Seg-2 Seg-3 Seg-4 Seg-5 Seg-6 Seg-7 Seg-8 Seg-9 Seg-10
23014055 23.3 431 898 548 1,386 642 2,570 664 4,311 1,905 200
23014071 28.6 72 112 76 149 99 135 107 223 113 30
23014098 25.2 217 313 228 470 192 488 258 630 283 45

*Three blood samples from sheep were collected at 3 unrelated farms; isolated virus was subjected to whole-genome sequencing. All 10 RNA genome segments were sequenced. BTV-3, bluetongue virus serotype 3; Ct, cycle threshold; Seg, genome segment.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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