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  Bluetongue   BLUV

Arbovirus

No

2

Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.
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USDA Permit Required, USDA Restricted, USDA High Consequence Agent 

Bluetongue
Section X - Histopathology

Natural infection often inflammation: sheep-lesions buccal, nasal and intestinal mucosae, and striated musculature; fetal lambs-brain lesions; cattle-necroses of oral mucosa, teats and udder (3,10)
Inclusion Bodies
Lower Vertabrates

 

Skeletal muscles (LV); sheep-death often pneumonia; death of fetus and congenital abnormalities common in lambs and sheep, cattle, goats, wild ruminants; embryonated chicken eggs;suckling mice, hamsters and guinea pigs.

Striated muscle, mucosa of head and digestive epithelium (3,10)
 
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