Severe outbreak of disease in the southern chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) associated with border disease virus infection

Antibodies to selected pathogens in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from Catalonia (NE Spain)

“…Wild boar can The four wild boars detected initially as positive to antibodies against CSFV but confirmed ultimately as positive for BDV were from an area in the Pyrenees where epidemics associated to a BDV have been reported in Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica; Marco et al 2007) and where a high seroprevalence of border disease has also been reported in sheep (Alba et al 2008). Experimental studies in pigs infected with a BDV isolated from Pyrenean chamois confirmed this seroconversion and the diagnostic challenge due to the crossreactivity of the BDV antibodies for CSFV ELISA-based tests (Cabezón et al 2010).…”

Prevalence of antibodies against selected agents shared between Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica parva) and domestic goats

“…Domestic animals (e.g., sheep) have been considered the origin of pestivirus inducing low seroprevalence in healthy chamois populations (Olde Riekerink et al 2005;Gaffuri et al 2006;Marco et al 2009), due to higher prevalence and relatively frequent detection of persistently infected farm animals (Vilcek and Nettleton 2006), although domestic ungulates can also be infected from wild ungulates through indirect contact (Uttenthal et al 2005). New high pathogenic virus strains could cause a mortality outbreak, as it has happened in the Pyrenees (Hurtado et al 2004;Vilcek and Nettleton 2006;Marco et al 2007), and pestivirus strains circulating in the wildlife-domestic livestock interface should be determined to evaluate the potential risk. However, the phylogenetic grouping of a highly pathogenic pestivirus Means with different letters are statistically (p<0.05) different among areas for the corresponding species *p<0.05 (means are statistically different between species for the corresponding area) Means with different letters statistically (P<0.05) different from each other isolated of Pyrenean chamois from France suggests that cross-specific transmission of this isolate from domestic sheep to chamois via shared pastures is unlikely (Frolich et al 2005).…”

“…Antibodies against viral pathogens include bovine herpesvirus 1, encephalomyocarditis virus (Gentile et al 2000), bovine parainfluenza type 3 virus, bovine respiratory syncytial virus (Gaffuri et al 2006), and pestivirus (Gentile et al 2000;Arnal et al 2004;Hurtado et al 2004;Gaffuri et al 2006;Marco et al 2007;Pioz et al 2007;Marco et al 2008). Regarding bacterial agents, antibodies have been detected against Brucella melitensis (Garin-Bastuji et al 1990), Mycoplasma conjunctivae (Giacometti et al 2002;Gaffuri et al 2006), Salmonella enterica, Coxiella burnetii (Pioz et al 2008), Leptospira interrogans (Gentile et al 2000), and Chlamydophila abortus (Pioz et al 2008;Salinas et al 2009).…”

Serological survey of selected infectious diseases in mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) from south-central Spain

“…Both BVDV and BDV of sheep belong to the genus Pestivirus (Thiel et al 2005), and serological cross reaction have been demonstrated (Krametter-Frötscher et al 2007). To our knowledge, no previous data on Pestivirus in mouflon is available, although they cause border disease in domestic sheep (Nettleton et al 1998) and a newly described pestivirus has become an emerging disease in Pyrenean chamois Marco et al 2007Marco et al , 2008Pioz et al 2007). Nevertheless, no antibodies against BVDV or MVV, a lentivirus which affects sheep and goats with a high prevalence in Spain (Luján et al 1993), were found in the sera of the mouflon considered in this study.…”