A nationwide database linking information on the hosts with sequence data of their virus strains: A useful tool for the eradication of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) in Switzerland.

Stalder, Hanspeter; Hug, Corinne; Zanoni, Reto Giacomo; Vogt, Hans-Rudolf; Peterhans, Ernst; Schweizer, Matthias; Bachofen, Claudia (2016). A nationwide database linking information on the hosts with sequence data of their virus strains: A useful tool for the eradication of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) in Switzerland. Virus research, 218, pp. 49-56. Elsevier 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.09.012

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Pestiviruses infect a wide variety of animals of the order Artiodactyla, with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) being an economically important pathogen of livestock globally. BVDV is maintained in the cattle population by infecting fetuses early in gestation and, thus, by generating persistently infected (PI) animals that efficiently transmit the virus throughout their lifetime. In 2008, Switzerland started a national control campaign with the aim to eradicate BVDV from all bovines in the country by searching for and eliminating every PI cattle. Different from previous eradication programs, all animals of the entire population were tested for virus within one year, followed by testing each newborn calf in the subsequent four years. Overall, 3,855,814 animals were tested from 2008 through 2011, 20,553 of which returned an initial BVDV-positive result. We were able to obtain samples from at least 36% of all initially positive tested animals. We sequenced the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of more than 7400 pestiviral strains and compiled the sequence data in a database together with an array of information on the PI animals, among others, the location of the farm in which they were born, their dams, and the locations where the animals had lived. To our knowledge, this is the largest database combining viral sequences with animal data of an endemic viral disease. Using unique identification tags, the different datasets within the database were connected to run diverse molecular epidemiological analyses. The large sets of animal and sequence data made it possible to run analyses in both directions, i.e., starting from a likely epidemiological link, or starting from related sequences. We present the results of three epidemiological investigations in detail and a compilation of 122 individual investigations that show the usefulness of such a database in a country-wide BVD eradication program.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

05 Veterinary Medicine > Research Foci > Host-Pathogen Interaction
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Virology and Immunology
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP)
05 Veterinary Medicine > Other Institutions > Emeriti, Vetsuisse Faculty

UniBE Contributor:

Stalder, Hanspeter, Hug, Corinne Nicole, Zanoni, Reto Giacomo, Vogt, Hans-Rudolf, Peterhans, Ernst, Schweizer, Matthias, Bachofen, Claudia

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture

ISSN:

0168-1702

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pamela Schumacher

Date Deposited:

24 Jul 2017 14:58

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:29

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.virusres.2015.09.012

PubMed ID:

26403669

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Eradication; Genotype; Molecular epidemiology; Nucleotide sequence database; Pestivirus; Virus transmission

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.96166

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/96166

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