Seroprevalence of Bovine Herpes Virus 1 (BoHV-1) in breeding bulls in Northeastern Anatolian Region of Turkey

Author(s):  
Volkan Yilmaz ◽  
Nuvit Coskun ◽  
Ozgur Celebi ◽  
Fatih Buyuk

Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) is well recognized as a pathogen that infects the respiratory and reproductive tracts. This study is a serological investigation of BoHV-1 in breeding bulls at 1–5 years of age from small scale family operations in three Northeastern Anatolian provinces (Kars, Ardahan and Igdir) in Turkey. For this purpose, blood was collected from 250 breeding bulls and was tested for antibodies against BoHV-1 using the virus neutralization technique. Out of 250 blood sera samples tested, 110 (44.00%) were detected as positive against to BoHV-1 and antibody titres were found to be varied between 1/2- 1/64. Among the controlled regions, the highest seroprevalance of BoHV-1 infection was found in Kars (64.81%) followed by Ardahan (30.00%) and Igdir (26.82%) provinces. The results suggested that the infection was spreading in breeding bulls in small scale family operations. This study is the first serological study to determine seroprevalence of BoHV-1 infection in breeding bulls in North-eastern Anatolia region.

1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Tekes ◽  
B. Markos ◽  
J. Méhesfalvi ◽  
Zsuzsanna Máté ◽  
E. Kudron ◽  
...  

Hungarian cattle herds were surveyed for bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) infection by ELISA of milk and serum samples. In 1993, 75% of the large cattle herds (consisting of more than 50 cattle) and all small herds (small-scale producers' stocks), while in 1997 90% of the small herds were included in the survey. In the case of large herds, 79.3% of the herds and 64.1% of the samples tested were found to be positive. Of the small herds, 13.5% and 15.7% tested positive in 1993 and 1997, respectively. The majority of large herds were Holstein-Friesian dairy stocks. Small herds with an infection rate markedly exceeding the average were found in those counties where the small herds had been in close contact with the large-scale farms, or where new herds were established by using animals of uncontrolled infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) status originating from large farms. Attention is called to the importance of maintaining the IBR-free status of small herds that constitute one-third of the Hungarian cattle population.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.C. Segura-Correa ◽  
C.C. Zapata-Campos ◽  
J.O. Jasso-Obregón ◽  
J. Martinez-Burnes ◽  
R. López-Zavala

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1525-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J J Carter ◽  
A D Weinberg ◽  
A Pollard ◽  
R Reeves ◽  
J A Magnuson ◽  
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1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-569
Author(s):  
C. Ek-Kommonen ◽  
P. Veijalainen ◽  
M. Rantala ◽  
E. Neuvonen

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148
Author(s):  
Fouad S. El-mayet ◽  
Kelly S. Harrison ◽  
Clinton Jones

Expression of Krüppel-like factor 15 (KLF15), a stress-induced transcription factor, is induced during bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) reactivation from latency, and KLF15 stimulates BoHV-1 replication. Transient transfection studies revealed that KLF15 and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) cooperatively transactivate the BoHV-1-immediate-early transcription unit 1 (IEtu1), herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infected cell protein 0 (ICP0), and ICP4 promoters. The IEtu1 promoter drives expression of bICP0 and bICP4, two key BoHV-1 transcriptional regulatory proteins. Based on these studies, we hypothesized infection is a stressful stimulus that increases KLF15 expression and enhances productive infection. New studies demonstrated that silencing KLF15 impaired HSV-1 productive infection, and KLF15 steady-state protein levels were increased at late stages of productive infection. KLF15 was primarily localized to the nucleus following infection of cultured cells with HSV-1, but not BoHV-1. When cells were transfected with a KLF15 promoter construct and then infected with HSV-1, promoter activity was significantly increased. The ICP0 gene, and to a lesser extent, bICP0 transactivated the KLF15 promoter in the absence of other viral proteins. In contrast, BoHV-1 or HSV-1 encoded VP16 had no effect on KLF15 promoter activity. Collectively, these studies revealed that HSV-1 and BoHV-1 productive infection increased KLF15 steady-state protein levels, which correlated with increased virus production.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin S. Pawar ◽  
Chetan D. Meshram ◽  
Niraj K. Singh ◽  
Mohini Saini ◽  
B. P. Mishra ◽  
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