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Virus Name: Vesicular Stomatitis, New Jersey serotype

Abbreviation: VSNJV

Status
Possible Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
2

SALS Basis
Extensive laboratory experience and mild nature of aerosol laboratory infections justifies Level 2.

Other Information

Antigenic Group
Vesicular Stomatitis

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	No. with antibody/No. tested Test used	Country and region


A single isolation of VSNJ made from Simulium flies collected while feeding on clinically infected cows in Colombia (21).
VSNJ neutralizing antibodies also found in a wide variety of wild mammals (17, 18)

horse	many	384/611 NT	Panama (12, 13)
cow	many	319/885 NT
pig	many	94/187 NT
man (lab workers or animal handlers)	few		USA (14, 15)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		980/2042 NT	Panama (16)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		209/1160 NT	Guatemala (16)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		144/670 NT	Honduras (16)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		146/675 NT	El Salvador (16)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		119/723 NT	Nicaragua (16)
man (adult rural inhabitants)		141/975 NT	Costa Rica (16)
Culex nigripalpus (unfed)	1/95		Guatamala (19)
Mansonia indubitans	1		Ecuador (20)
Musca domestica	22		Larimer City, CO (31)
Musca autumnalis	2
Chloropidae	1
Anthomyidae	4
Simuliidae	2
Culicoides variipennis	2		Western Colorado (32)
Culicoides stellifer	1
Culicoides selfia sp.	1

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