“…CSFV specific primers were designed considering sequences of the 5'NTR of the genome of 55 different pestivirus strains, available in GenBank or in the database of CSF European reference laboratory of Hanover (Germany), that includes 37 CSFV representing subgroups described by Lowings [20]: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and disparate virus outgrouped [12,13,15,25,27,[31][32][33], fourteen BVDV belonging to types I and II [5,8,32] and four BDV isolates [4,29]. Sequences were aligned, using Clustal W software, and five oligonucleotides were primarily selected from highly conserved sequences among the different CSFV strains but showing high divergence with the other pestiviruses.…”