Isolation and Identification of Bovine Viral Diarrhea/Mucosal Disease Virus (BVD/MD Virus) from an Atypical Case Resembling Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF)

• Published in: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
• Main Authors: Saxegaard, F., Bratberg, B., Ek, N.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 1971
• Subjects: Article; Norway; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561505/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5169166; https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03547728

The clinical and pathological picture of the BVD/MD complex is most protean, and the majority of cases run a subclinical course (Bruner & Gillespie 1966). The disease complex has been recorded in many countries and on all continents (Mills et ah 1965). In Scandinavia a BVD/MD-like disease, the “Umeå disease”, was described by Nystedt in northern Sweden in 1960 and later proved to be a mixed infection of bovine parainfluenza virus type 3 and BVD/MD virus (Dinter & Bakos 1961). In 1961 the Umea syndrome was reported in Denmark by Borgen & Dinter and in Finland by Rislakki. In Norway the picture of the BVD/MD complex has been known for many years although no isolation of the virus has yet been described*. The isolation and identification of the virus from an atypical case of BVD/MD in a heifer is described in the following.