Gundallahalli Bayyappa Manjunatha Reddy, Pabbineedi Sai Mounica, Nagaraj Sudeep, Ramesh Vikram, Gyamnya Baki Garam, Hlawndo Lalzampuia, Selvaraj Ragulraj, Suchismita Pal, Kobu Khate, Shraddha Bijalwan, Patil Shivanagowda Girish, Baldev Raj Gulati
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a disease of cattle that is also known to cause mild infection in buffaloes. To date, there have been no reports of LSD in mithun (Bos frontalis), a bovine species distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and parts of China. In the present study, the presence of typical clinical signs, virus isolation, PCR amplification, sequence analysis, and the demonstration of antibodies in serum by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and serum neutralization test, confirmed the occurrence of LSD in mithun for the first time in India...
March 7, 2024: Archives of Virology