Abstract
Preliminary Study of Seroprevalence of Border Disease Virus (BDV) Among Sheep and Goats in Mosul City, Iraq
Highlights
The Border disease (BD) was first time reported by Hughes in sheep and goats in the border area between Wales and England in 1959
Animals and Sampling In the period between October 2018 and March 2019, the samples were obtained from different regions with different management systems including Gogjalee, Abo jarboaa, Al- Hamdanyah, Bartilla, and Bashiqa represented by 20 local Awassi sheep and Shami goat herds (≥1.5 year old) and no vaccination history against border disease virus (BDV) in Mosul city, Iraq
The study revealed that the seroprevalence of BDV in sheep was 46.9% that indicated a high infection rate as there is no vaccination against BDV
Summary
The Border disease (BD) was first time reported by Hughes in sheep and goats in the border area between Wales and England in 1959. Thereafter the disease has been reported world-wide (Hughes et al, 1959). The virus infects a wide range of animals but mainly sheep and goats (OIE, 2017) and shares the genus with classical swine fever virus and bovine virus diarrhea viruses 1 and 2 (Oguzoglu et al, 2009). Affected lambs may have low birth weight, ataxia and occasionally enteric dysfunction and mucosal disease-like lesions have been been recorded in sheep and lambs infected with BDV
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