Bluetongue Flashcards
Bluetongue is present only in tropical areas
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Rodents serve as reservoirs of bluetongue
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Ibaraki disease is clinically very similar to bluetongue
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Ibaraki disease virus can be used to immunize cattle against bluetongue
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Lameness is a frequent symptom of bluetongue in sheep
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Bluetongue virus can cause bloody diarrhoea in lambs
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Bluetongue is named after cyanosis of the tongue
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The bluetongue virus is vectored by midges/ gnats
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Cattle can carry the bluetongue virus for years without symptoms
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Wild birds play the most important role in the distribution of bluetongue
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In Europe vaccination of small ruminants against bluetongue is mandatory
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Bluetongue virus is also foetopathic
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Bluetongue virus may cause foetal developmental problems
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Lameness and abortion are signs of bluetongue
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Bluetongue occurs only in Africa and Australia
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Bluetongue is transmitted by ticks
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Bluetongue virus is typically vectored by ticks
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Bluetongue can be transmitted by semen
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Goats are more resistant to the bluetongue than sheep
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Goats are not susceptible to bluetongue virus
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Vaccination against Bluetongue results serotype specific immunity
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Bluetongue disease occurs only in Africa
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Bluetongue virus infects also horses and dogs
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Endothelial damages are the most important causes of the clinical signs of bluetongue
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A serotype 8 of bluetongue virus strain caused severe outbreak in Europe in 2006-2009
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Bluetongue outbreaks mainly occur is summer and autumn
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Sheep are less sensitive to Bluetongue than swine.
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Bluetongue causes transient infection in cattle.
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Bluetongue vaccines induce serotype-specific immunity.
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Bluetongue is named after the pseudo-melanosis of the tongue
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Bluetongue also infects horses and dogs
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Ibaraki disease virus immunizes against bluetongue
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Bluetongue disease is present only in tropical and sub-tropical countries
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Wild birds are the natural reservoir host of the Bluetongue virus
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In utero Bluetongue virus infection may result in immunotolerance
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The most severe clinical manifestation of Bluetongue disease is usually seen in goats.
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Bluetongue is an Orbivirus.
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Bluetongue primarily spreads with blood sucking insects
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Bluetongue replicates in endothelial cells of blood vessels
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The causative agent of Bluetongue multiplies in endothelium.
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Bluetongue has 24 known serotypes.
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Bluetongue is an enteral disease of turkeys.
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Bluetongue causes symptoms mostly in sheep and goat
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NOT GOAT!!!
Bluetongue is not present in Europe.
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Bluetongue causes skin signs in bovine.
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Bluetongue also infects pigs.
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Bluetongue infects all hooved animals
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No long-term carrier stage is observed in Bluetongue virus infections.
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Ruminants and swine are the most important hosts of the Bluetongue virus
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Lameness is one of the clinical signs of Bluetongue disease in sheep.
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Serological cross protection exists between 25 known serotypes of Bluetongue virus
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Ibarki disease is a Bluetongue-like disease in Asia and in America.
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The serotype 8 strain of the bluetongue virus, which emerged in Western Europe, does not
cause clinical signs in cattle.
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